Dangerous Muse: A Life of Caroline Blackwood

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Caroline Blackwood was a journalist and novelist. She was born into the Guinness family in 1931 and was on intimate terms with some of the most celebrated artists of her time. Her first husband was the painter Lucian Freud, her second the composer Israel Citkowitz, and her third the poet Robert Lowell. Caroline's marriage to Lucian Freud caused a great stir in English society; Caroline and Lucian became part of an artistic and literary group that included Francis Bacon and Cyril Connolly, but eventually Freud's drinking and gambling became too much and she left him. Her most trying times, however, were during her marriage to Lowell, who suffered from paranoia and acute depression. Caroline published her first novel at the age of thirty-eight: THE STEPDAUGHTER. Her most successful book, GREAT GRANNY WEBSTER, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In all, she wrote ten books of fiction and non-fiction.

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Caroline Blackwood was a journalist and novelist. She was born into the Guinness family in 1931 and was on intimate terms with some of the most celebrated artists of her time. Her first husband was the painter Lucian Freud, her second the composer Israel Citkowitz, and her third the poet Robert Lowell. Caroline's marriage to Lucian Freud caused a great stir in English society; Caroline and Lucian became part of an artistic and literary group that included Francis Bacon and Cyril Connolly, but eventually Freud's drinking and gambling became too much and she left him. Her most trying times, however, were during her marriage to Lowell, who suffered from paranoia and acute depression. Caroline published her first novel at the age of thirty-eight: THE STEPDAUGHTER. Her most successful book, GREAT GRANNY WEBSTER, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In all, she wrote ten books of fiction and non-fiction.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 397
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 06 Jun 2002
ISBN 10: 0753813238
ISBN 13: 9780753813232
Book Overview: This is the first biography of Caroline Blackwood ever published High profile serialisation in MAIL ON SUNDAY on hardback publication Nancy Schoenberger has interviewed Blackwood's former lovers, friends and enemies including Seamus Heaney, Jonathan Miller, Elizabeth Hardwick, Jonathan Raban and Geordie Grieg 'Not so much a literary biography as a fable for our own times - dramatic, chilling and suggestive - in the same way as Grimm's fairy tales (or for that matter Freud's case histories) were for theirs' NEW YORK TIMES 'This biography is like high-class gossip: plausible yet shallow, highly coloured, leaving one slightly ashamed at having enjoyed it so much' FINANCIAL TIMES 'The cast of characters in this book is so extraordinary, and they all, when quoted, express themselves in such an unusual way, that it is a pleasure to read...I found it fascinating' Hugo Vickers, LITERARY REVIEW

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Nancy Schoenberger is Professor of English at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

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