George Campbell Macaulay

RM 's father, George Campbell Macaulay , was a schoolmaster at Rugby School when she was born. He later became an academic. His death at sixty-three in 1915 was both a great loss and a...

RM 's father left Rugby School to take his family to live in the warm climate of Varazze, Italy, on account of his wife's ill health. They stayed in Italy for seven years.

RM 's father was appointed Professor of English Language and Literature at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth; the family moved to Ty-issa, four miles from Aberystwyth.

RM 's father was appointed to a Lectureship in English at Cambridge University , and the family moved to Great Shelford, four miles from Cambridge.

George Campbell Macaulay died at sixty-three, shortly before he had expected to retire. His daughter RM was too much upset to go to his funeral.

To celebrate RM 's writing successes and give her a break from caring for her mother , her father took her on a two-week cruise to Greece.

With her father , RM sailed from England to visit her brother's farm in Alberta, Canada: too close for comfort, as it turned out, to the outbreak of war.