apart from her studies at the slade and the period from 1915 to 1928, which covered her life with jacques and early widowhood, raverat lived in or near cambridge. in 1928 she moved into the old rectory, harlton, near cambridge. the house was the model for her engravings for "the runaway". in 1946 she moved into the old granary, silver street, in cambridge; the house was at the end of the garden of newnham grange, where she was born.