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.
Schoenberger, Nancy. Dangerous Muse, A Life of Caroline Blackwood. Phoenix, 2002.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships
Caroline Blackwood
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Caroline Blackwood
He was clutching the Lucian Freud
picture of CB
entitled Girl in Bed.
Schoenberger, Nancy. Dangerous Muse, A Life of Caroline Blackwood. Phoenix, 2002.
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Textual Features
Caroline Blackwood
Critic Val Warner
called CB
a unique voice in twentieth-century British fiction.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes.
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...