Lucian Freud

CB made her first marriage, at Chelsea register office, to the dashing young painter Lucian Freud (grandson to Sigmund Freud ), who divorced his wife to marry her.

In the early 1950s CB met the young painter Lucian Freud , whom her mother disliked for being bohemian, unconventionally dressed, Jewish, and not a duke's son. The two lived together for a year in...

He was clutching the Lucian Freud picture of CB entitled Girl in Bed.

Critic Val Warner called CB a unique voice in twentieth-century British fiction. A press handout on Nancy Schoenberger 's biography likens Blackwood's work to that of Edna O'Brien , Muriel Spark , Iris Murdoch

As a reviewer early in her career, CB offered her readers the pleasures of satirical laughter. She was still reviewing books in the 1990s, and in December 1993 she produced a thoughtful and respectful review...