Caroline Blackwood

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CB began writing, or at least publishing, relatively late in a life which had hitherto seemed more that of a muse than of an author. Her novels and short stories tend to draw on painful family or other real-life histories. She also published non-fiction on several topics, including a cookery book.

Milestones

16 July 1931

Lady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (who later published as Caroline Blackwood) was born at Clandeboye, the grand family estate in Northern Ireland, the eldest of three children.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
61: 93
Schoenberger, Nancy. Dangerous Muse, A Life of Caroline Blackwood. Phoenix.
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1984

CB published her fourth and final novel, Corrigan, by some regarded as her most optimistic and subtle fiction (though ODNB thinks it weak).
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

7 April 1995

CB 's The Last of the Duchess, an account of the final years of the Duchess of Windsor written in 1980, appeared in print after one of its subjects, Maitre Suzanne Blum , the duchess's lawyer, had died.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Diski, Jenny. “Entitlement”. London Review of Books, pp. 21-3.
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14 February 1996

CB died in New York of cervical cancer, which had metastasized after an earlier occurrence and unsuccessful treatment.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
61: 93
Mairs, Nancy. “Unhappily ever after”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xix
, No. 2, pp. 10-11.
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Biography

Birth and Family

16 July 1931

Lady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (who later published as Caroline Blackwood) was born at Clandeboye, the grand family estate in Northern Ireland, the eldest of three children.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
61: 93
Schoenberger, Nancy. Dangerous Muse, A Life of Caroline Blackwood. Phoenix.
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