CAROLINE Blackwood had, as her third husband Robert Lowell called it, and as the photographs in Dangerous Muse attest, an extraordinary "ragged beauty." In her youth she was graceful and slender, with ...

A selection of grimly compelling fiction and journalistic pieces by Blackwood (1931–1996), the Irish-born author and wife to Lucian Freud and Robert Lowell, spotlights her sharp-edged observations.

Gerry Howard, who worked with Ms. Kiernan on her McCarthy biography when he was at Norton, will edit the book, which is tentatively titled The Two Mrs. Lowells. The book will be published through the ...

Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood's grimly hilarious and semi-autobiographical 1977 tale of boozy, oddball aristocrats is back in print, and its title character an impossibly dour and correct ...

Beauty is a dubious blessing, "muse" a doubtful compliment. Both imply passivity: The action belongs to others, usually male. Lady Caroline Blackwood's Irish-countryhouse beauty was the kind idealized ...

In April 1970, Robert Lowell met the writer Caroline Blackwood at a party in London. Lowell, at 53, was one of the most celebrated American poets of the era. Although he had a wife and daughter back ...

The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle, edited by Saskia Hamilton. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 560 pages. $50. The ...

Like Alma Mahler, Lady Caroline Blackwood, the Anglo-Irish writer who was married to Lucian Freud in the 1950s and to Robert Lowell in the 1970s, was a beauty. She was also petulant and arrogant. But ...

“How happy we’ll be together,” Robert Lowell wrote to Elizabeth Hardwick in July, 1949, weeks before their marriage. Thirty-two years old and divorced from the writer Jean Stafford, Lowell was ...

You wait years for a drama about Wallis Simpson and then three turn up at once. Last Christmas, she popped into 65 Eaton Place during an episode of Upstairs Downstairs and, this year, she got a biopic ...