 Her family was wealthy and she had no need to work, devoting her life instead to politics and the arts.At Cambridge she fell in love with Bernard Deacon, a scholar at Trinity but was shattered when he died from blackwater fever whilst working on Malakula in the New Hebrides, Vanuatu in 1927 at the age of 24.She visited his grave there 56 years later and wrote a book, "Footprints on Malekula