Leonora Carrington is a Mexican painter and writer of English birth. She is the last surviving member of the inner circle of Surrealists from pre-war Paris. Leonora was born in 1917 to Harold Carrington, an English textiles magnate and his Irish-born wife, Maurie Carrington. Leonora was a debutante who spent most her childhood on her family estate in Lancashire, England. Although Carrington was a debutante, she was a rebellious child being expelled from two convent schools for bad behavior even though she was educated by governesses, tutors, and nuns. Warrington was drawn to artistic expression over anything so when she continued rebel, her parents sent her to study art in Italy. Inspired by the Italian Renaissance paintings, Leonora returned
