Lady Caroline Blackwood was a writer, 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, Lady 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 is scathingly autobiographical in describing her unhappy childhood.
Books in order of publication:
For All That I Found There – (1973) George Braziller.
The Fate of Mary Rose – (1974). Summit Books.
The Stepdaughter. (1976). Pocket Books.
Great Granny Webster. (1977). New York Review Books.
Darling, You Shouldn’t Have Gone to So Much Trouble. (1980). Jonathan Cape.
Good Night Sweet Ladies. (1983). Penguin Books.
Corrigan. (1984). NYRB Classics.
On the Perimeter. (1984). Penguin Books.
In the Pink. (1987). Bloomsbury Publishing.
The Last of the Duchess. (1995). Pantheon Books.
Never Breathe a Word: The Collected Stories of Caroline Blackwood (2010).
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