Lady Caroline Blackwood
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Lady Caroline Blackwood | |
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Born | Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood 16 July 1931 London, England |
Died | 14 February 1996 New York City, U.S. | (aged 64)
Occupation | Writer |
Years active | 1973–1995 |
Spouses | |
Children | 4, including Eugenia |
Parents | |
Relatives |
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Family | Guinness |
Lady Caroline Blackwood (born Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood; 16 July 1931 – 14 February 1996) was an English writer, socialite, and muse. Her novels have been praised for their wit and intelligence. One of her works is an autobiography, which detailed her wealthy but unhappy childhood. She was born into an aristocratic British family, the eldest child of the 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and of Maureen Constance Guinness. All three of her husbands were famous personalities in their own right.
Early life
Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood was born on 16 July 1931 at 4 Hans Crescent in Knightsbridge, her parents' London home.[1] Her parents were Maureen Constance Guinness and Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava.
Blackwood was, self-admittedly, "scantily educated" at Rockport School in County Down and Downham School near Essex,[2] among other schools.
In 1949, after a finishing school in Oxford, Blackwood was presented as a debutante at a ball held at Londonderry House.[3]
Career
Blackwood's first job was with
After marrying
In the early 1960s, Blackwood began contributing to
Her third husband,
The Last of the Duchess was completed in 1980. A study of the relations between the
Blackwood's later books were based on interviews and vignettes, including On The Perimeter (1984), which focused her attentions on the
Published works
Blackwood had published 10 books - but 11 are listed below.
- Blackwood, Caroline (1973). For All That I Found There. ISBN 9780715607602
- Blackwood, Caroline (1974). The Fate of Mary Rose. ISBN 9780140060638
- Blackwood, Caroline (1976). The Stepdaughter. ISBN 9780671820404
- Blackwood, Caroline (1977). Great Granny Webster. ISBN 9781590170076
- Blackwood, Caroline with ISBN 9780224018340
- Blackwood, Caroline (1983). Good Night Sweet Ladies. ISBN 9780140085228
- Blackwood, Caroline (1984). Corrigan. ISBN 9781590170069
- Blackwood, Caroline (1984). On the Perimeter. ISBN 9780140083224
- Blackwood, Caroline (1987). In the Pink. ISBN 9780747500506
- Blackwood, Caroline (1995). The Last of the Duchess. ISBN 9780679439707
- Blackwood, Caroline (2010). Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories of Caroline Blackwood. ISBN 9781582435695
Personal life
Blackwood was married three times, and had four children.
- Lucian Freud, married 9 December 1953, divorced 1958.[citation needed]
- Israel Citkowitz, married 15 August 1959, divorced 1972, three daughters; including Eugenia.
- Robert Lowell, married 21 October 1972, one son.
In 1957, Blackwood moved to New York City and studied acting at the Stella Adler school.[citation needed]
Ann Fleming, the wife of Ian Fleming, introduced Blackwood to Lucian Freud and the couple eloped in Paris on 9 December 1953.
By 1966, when Blackwood and Citkowitz's youngest, Ivana, was born,
On 22 June 1978, Blackwood's eldest daughter with Citkowitz, Natalya, died from postural asphyxia due to a drug overdose, aged 17.[10]
Blackwood and Lowell lived in London and at
In 1977, to avoid taxation, Blackwood left England and went to live in
Death
On 14 February 1996, Lady Caroline Blackwood died from cancer, at the Mayfair Hotel on
References
- ^ "Blackwood, Lady Caroline Maureen | Dictionary of Irish Biography". dib.ie. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- ^ "Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories of Caroline…". Goodreads. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- ^ "The Question Is, Which Actress Should Play Lady Caroline Blackwood in a Hollywood Biopic?". Messy Nessy Chic. 18 November 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- ^ Schoenberger, Nancy (2012). Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood, n.p. Random House Digital, Inc.
- ^ a b c Brubach, Holly. "Their Better Half". The New York Times, 17 August 2010.
- ^ a b c Gaines, Steven. "Ivana Lowell, Sober Guinness Heiress Raised by Poet, Says What Happened". New York magazine, 19 September 2010.
- ^ "Great Granny Webster". Booker Prize. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- ^ Saner, Emine. "Ivana Lowell: So, who was my father?", The Guardian, 3 December 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
- ^ "Ivana Lowell: So, who was my father? | Family | The Guardian". amp.theguardian.com. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- ^ Gonzalez, Alexander G. (2006). Irish Women Writers: An A-To-Z Guide, p. 24. Greenwood Publishing Group.
- ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
Further reading
- Davenport-Hines, Richard. "Caroline Blackwood" in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.