![]() ![]() In her preface to the 1962 Dent edition, Foy Quiller-Couch, daughter of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q'), explains how the manuscript came into her possession on his death in 1944 and how in 1959, after re-reading it, she decided to ask her great friend Daphne du Maurier to finish the novel, in spite of Q's opinion that it would never be good enough to publish.ĭaphne was dubious at first. ![]() This study is not a literary criticism but a discussion of the background to Castle Dor and references in the text which reflect not only the context of the two authors' lives, motivation, and research but also local topography, Cornish history and folklore related to the legend of Tristan and Iseult, upon which the novel is based. ![]()
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