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Joanna Moorhead on Leonora Carrington

The Great Women Artists

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Is That a Message From the Nanny?

Lea Nora's family were keen to get her back from the asylum. She managed somehow after the Nanny had gone back to Lancashire. Her life, like the countryside around her must have looked just so bleak at that moment. And she was terrified by him as well as wanting to get away from her family. But then an extraordinary thing happens. They leave Madrid separately and go to Lisbon. Lea Nora spends a lot of time wandering around Lisbon. And who does she see across the square in Lisbon? Maxine Guggenheim. He doesn't even know if he's still alive. Well, they're going to get married now with Renato le Duke. A lot

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