She returned to England and was presented at Court, but according to her, she brought a copy of Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza (1936) to read instead. Her father opposed her career as an artist, but her mother encouraged her. In 1927, at the age of ten, she saw her first Surrealist painting in a Left Bank gallery in Paris and later met many Surrealists, including Paul Éluard. She also, briefly, attended St Mary's convent school in Ascot. Įducated by governesses, tutors, and nuns, she was expelled from two schools, including New Hall School in Chelmsford for her rebellious behaviour, until her family sent her to Florence, where she attended Mrs Penrose's Academy of Art. From 1920 until 1927 she lived at Crookhey Hall, a large home in Cockerham, which exerted a great influence on her imagination. She had three brothers: Patrick, Gerald, and Arthur. Her father, Harold Wylde Carrington, was a wealthy textile manufacturer, and her mother, Marie (née Moorhead), was from Ireland. Mary Leonora Carrington was born at Westwood House in Clayton Green, England, into a Roman Catholic family. Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of the 1930s. Mary Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – ) was a British-born surrealist painter and novelist.
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