Ah ~~ that is interesting. Thanks Guest. Is that the same Paul Carter that I knew in London in the 50s, and used to meet at the Eel Pie Island and Troubadour Fulham Road folk clubs? [he sang an excellent Canadian version of Musgrave/MattyGroves called The Young Leboux, I recall] ~~ I have often wondered if the novelist's husband was one & the same man. I think it probable ∴ that it might indeed have been the other way round, and she got her inspiration for Fevvers from that somewhat mystic song.

Thanks again

~Michael~