Caroline Blackwood

1931–1996

English writer born into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, the eldest child of the 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava and Maureen Guinness. She began in journalism, writing for magazines including Encounter, and was married in turn to the painter Lucian Freud, the composer Israel Citkowitz and the poet Robert Lowell. Her first novel, The Stepdaughter (1976), won the David Higham Prize; later books include The Fate of Mary Rose and Corrigan. She died in New York in February 1996. Great Granny Webster, drawn partly from her own childhood, was shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize.

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