Lady Caroline Blackwood
Journalist, Author
1931 – 1996
Who was Lady Caroline Blackwood?
The Lady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood was a writer and artist's muse, and the eldest child of the 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and the brewery heiress Maureen Guinness.
A well-known figure in the literary world through her journalism and her novels, Caroline Blackwood was equally well known for her high-profile marriages, first to the artist Lucian Freud, then to the composer Israel Citkowitz and finally to the poet Robert Lowell, who described her as "a mermaid who dines upon the bones of her winded lovers". Her novels are known for their wit and intelligence, and one in particular is scathingly autobiographical in describing her unhappy childhood.
She was born into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family from Ulster at 4 Hans Crescent in Knightsbridge, her parents' London home. She was, she admitted, "scantily educated" at Rockport School in County Down, at Brilliantmont in Lausanne, and at Downham in Essex. After a finishing school in Oxford she was presented as a debutante in 1949 at a ball held at Londonderry House. Plump, ungainly and lacking in confidence as a teenager, she soon blossomed into a captivating blonde beauty with startlingly large blue eyes.
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- Born
- Jul 16, 1931
London - Also known as
- The Lady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood
- Spouses
- Robert Lowell
(1972 - 1977) - Lucian Freud
(1953 - 1958) - Israel Citkowitz
(1959 - 1972)
- Robert Lowell
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- London
- New York City
- Died
- Feb 14, 1996
New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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