Quotings (Marlow)

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Quoitings was in the 1830's the home of G.P.R. James who today is almost entirely forgotten but who in the middle of the 19th century was one of the best known, if not the best known, writer of his day since he was both popular and prolific. His father had been physician to George IV and all his life James remembered and longed for the gay days of youth which he so often described in his books. Blameless and moral as his own life was, his father's patron and patient, the Prince Regent, was a much greater figure to him than the Prince Consort, while Byron represented quality and style in a way Tennyson could never rival. Thus James was never at heart a Victorian, although he held the appointment of Historiographer Royal to William IV and Queen Victoria. In all he wrote some 90 novels - romantic, historical and political - and additionally published several histories and biographies, writing in 1838 what was then the standard work on the life of Louis XIV. His two sons were born at "Quoitings".