Biography
Megan Feulner is a writer and literary researcher based in Boston. She holds an M.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies and is currently developing a book-length project on the writer Caroline Blackwood. Her work sits at the intersection of literary history, biography, and the intimate record, with a particular interest in women’s artistic lives, relationships, and acts of self-invention.
Caroline Blackwood
I am developing a book-length project on Caroline Blackwood (1931–1996), the Anglo-Irish writer whose fiction, journalism, and extraordinary life placed her within some of the most compelling literary and artistic circles of the twentieth century.
Blackwood has often been remembered through the famous men in her life—Lucian Freud, Israel Citkowitz, and Robert Lowell—or through the mythology surrounding her beauty, marriages, drinking, and aristocratic background. Yet she was also a formidable and singular writer: funny, unsentimental, observant, and fascinated by cruelty, family, beauty, failure, and the unsettling territory of domestic life.
My project approaches Blackwood as its central subject, while exploring the relationships, places, and artistic worlds that shaped her. I am particularly interested in the distance between the woman preserved in other people’s stories and the writer who emerges from Blackwood’s own work, correspondence, journalism, and intimate record.
The project asks what becomes visible when Caroline Blackwood is allowed to occupy the center of her own story.
