· Dangerous Muse is the first biography of Lady Caroline Blackwood. Drawing upon numerous interviews and unpublished letters from Blackwood's Author: Nancy Schoenberger. · Dangerous Muse: The Life Of Lady Caroline Blackwood is a wonderful true story of a woman born into a georgian irish- anglo estate in Lady Caroline lives a bohemian life far removed from the lifestyle she had been born into. She is a fascinating women, one you would like to /5(5). · Nancy Schoenberger Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood. Doubleday, pages, $ Lady Caroline Blackwood () was a descendant of the playwright Sheridan; great-granddaughter of the Viceroy of India who annexed Burma to the British Empire; daughter of the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, a promising, but hard-drinking Irish politician, who died .
Nancy Schoenberger is a professor of English and creative writing at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood, and coauthor with her husband, Sam Kashner, of books on Oscar Levant, George Reeves, and the relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. She lives in. Dangerous Muse is an intriguing biography of an underrated writer. Caroline Blackwood seemed to be one of those women doomed to live in the shadow of the men in her life (Lucien Freud, Robert Lowell), but managed to transcend the highs and lows of these relationships by becoming a distinctive novelist, short story writer and journalist. Lady Caroline Blackwood (), with her wealth, fame, brilliance, eccentricity, dysfunction and illness, is an ideal subject for an absorbingly juicy (albeit tragic) biography. Perhaps.
Dangerous Muse is the first biography of Lady Caroline Blackwood. Drawing upon numerous interviews and unpublished letters from Blackwood's mother, Maureen Dufferin, and friends and family, including Andrew Harvey, Jonathan Raban, John Richardson, and Caroline's sister Perdita Blackwood, Nancy Schoenberger eloquently captures one of the most original and provocative figures in contemporary letters of the twentieth century. Raised an heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood () moved easily among the aristocracy, the bohemians of postwar England and the liberal intelligentsia of s New York. She has been called a muse to genius-though her marriages to Lucian Freud, the composer Israel Citkowitz, and Robert Lowell were as troubled as they were inspiring-and she was an author herself, short-listed for the Booker Prize in DANGEROUS MUSE: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood. Nancy Schoenberger, Author. Doubleday/ Talese $ (p) ISBN Lady Caroline Blackwood (–), with her wealth.
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