Alan Joseph Gregory

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

From this the young author made herself an annual income averaging £200. She went on writing for Girls' Cinema until its demise in September 1935, and also contributed verse and stories to Aunt Maud's next...

Carter's old friend Alan Joseph Gregory (Grog) moved in a few weeks after the couple were married; he lived with them for the next thirteen years. Like Pip, he involved himself in MA 's work...

They moved in with Grog , their servant Christina Carter (whose surname was a coincidence), and their friend Mary Orr acting as a second servant.