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Joanna Moorhead on Leonora Carrington

The Great Women Artists

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Leonaora, Carrington, She Just Didn't Fit In

As a child, Leonaora Carrington was sent away to boarding school when she was about 11. She went to two boarding schools, two convents, but she was expelled from both of them. Her parents hoped for and expected her to marry ideally a Catholic aristocrat. The thing about the Carrington's were that they were nouveau riche. But they didn't have the pedigree going back the way that would put them into their grandest drawing rooms of England.

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