The British surrealist artist Leonora Carrington led a life defined by rebellion and propelled by her boundless curiosity and imagination. Born into a wealthy Roman Catholic family in 1917, she was, as a child, far more interested in the writings of Lewis Carroll, and the tales of Celtic mythology and Irish folklore told to her by her Irish nanny, than in behaving as a respectable young girl was expected to.

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