Caroline Blackwood

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Lady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (born July 16, 1931 in London , † February 14, 1996 in New York City ) came from an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family and was a writer , journalist and high society lady .

Life

Lady Caroline Maureen was the eldest daughter of three children of the politician Basil Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1909-1945) and his wife Hon. Maureen Constance Guinness (1907-1998), a daughter of the Hon Arthur Ernest Guinness and an heiress to the brewing empire. Her great-grandfather, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava , was Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India . Her father fell in Burma during World War II - her mother had two other marriages in the years that followed. Caroline Blackwood rebelled against her origins at an early age and moved in the artistic circles of London and New York.

On December 9, 1953, Caroline Blackwood married the painter Lucian Freud (1922-2011), a grandson of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in Paris . The marriage failed because of his addiction to drinking and gambling and was divorced in Mexico in 1959 . In the same year she married the composer Israel Citkowitz (1909–1974). The relationship, which was divorced in 1972, resulted in three daughters. A month later, the 41-year-old Blackwood married the American poet Robert Lowell (1917–1977) - their son Sheridan emerged from the connection.

Caroline Blackwood died in New York Mayfair Hotel from the effects of cancer .

Works (selection)

  • Tally-Ho. About the English fox hunt. Rio Verlag, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-9520059-2-4 .
  • Great-grandma Webster. Novel. Translated from the English by Hans-Ulrich Möhring . With an afterword by Gray Gowrie. Fahrenheit, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-940813-03-9 .
  • Good night sweet ladies.
  • The Fate of Mary Rose.
  • Good night sweet ladies. Stories and Occasional Pieces.
  • For All That I Found There.
  • Great Granny Webster.
  • On the perimeter.
  • The Last of the Duchess. MacMillan, London 1995, ISBN 978-0-333-63062-4 .
  • The Stepdaughter.
  • Corrigan. Penguin, London 1986, ISBN 0-14-007732-4 .

Name in different phases of life

  • 1931–1953 Lady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood
  • 1953–1958 ( canceled ) Caroline Maureen Freud
  • 1959–1972 (canceled) Caroline Maureen Citkowitz
  • 1972 Caroline Maureen Lowell

literature

  • Nancy Schoenberger: Dangerous Muse: A Life of Caroline Blackwood. Phoenix, 2002, ISBN 0-7538-1323-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Blackwood, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Lady Caroline Maureen; Lowell, Caroline Maureen; Citkowitz, Caroline Maureen; Freud, Caroline Maureen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer, journalist and high society lady
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1996
Place of death New York City