Philip Youngman Carter

The teenage MA first met Philip (Pip) Youngman Carter , a connection of her family by marriage and a fellow-student at the Regent Street Polytechnic .

It was rejected for serialisation by the Saturday Evening Post, and kept hanging by the English Woman's Journal, but then MA 's husband sold it to John Bull for a princely 1,500 guineas.

Pip Carter first proposed to MA , whom he was eventually to marry.

On this book her husband helped her with correcting and revising as of old.

MA and her future husband, Pip Carter , got engaged: he is a worthy young man and not at all likely to beat me was her flippant comment to a friend.

MA 's husband published memoirs of her in 1982. She was a perceptive commentator on her own aims and techniques. I am by nature an intuitive writer, she wrote, whose intellect trots along behind, tidying...

MA married Pip Carter at St Giles-in-the-Fields church in London.

MA and Pip Carter stayed at her parents' house in Letheringham while her parents were in London.

MA , her husband Pip Carter , and their friend Grog , moved into Viaduct Farm at Chappel in Suffolk, near her parents' house at Shelley.

MA , her husband Pip Carter , and their entourage, moved to the elegant Georgian D'Arcy House in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, formerly the home of her parents' friend Dr John Henry Salter .

MA 's husband joined the Royal Army Service Corps and left home: he was posted to North Africa.

Cryptic remarks in MA 's diary suggest that she learned of her husband 's affair with another woman, and that despite the shock she found the knowledge a relief compared with her earlier suspicion.

MA and her husband were interviewed by a pair of tax inspectors who bullied her aggressively and hinted at irregularities in reporting her US income.

MA arrived in New York with her husband , visiting the USA for the first and only time in her life.

MA 's widower, Philip Youngman Carter , published in her name Cargo of Eagles, her final novel, which he completed after she left it unfinished.