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Jenny Diski: Caroline Blackwood, 18 October 2001
Dangerous Muse: A Life of Caroline Blackwood
by Nancy Schoenberger.
Weidenfeld, 336 pp., £20, June 2001,0 297 84101 7 Show More
by Nancy Schoenberger.
Weidenfeld, 336 pp., £20, June 2001,
“... yourself stupid at the Soho academies in Dean Street and Old Compton Street. To be accepted by Muriel at the Colony Club and Gaston at the French Pub added kudos to the twilit and self-conscious life of a Soho drunk. Self-image was no less important then than it is now. In Rome she found the men who hung about her unacceptable, except for one who stroked ... ”