Leonora Carrington: Crookhey Hall and Celtic Myths
Chapter 1

The debutante who chose the hyena

Chapter 2

Flight, madness, and the great escape

Chapter 3

The three witches of Mexico City

Chapter 4

The legacy of the white horse

YOUR GOAL

Master of The surreal escape of Leonora Carrington

Ch 1 · The debutante who chose the hyena
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b134340 Celtic mythology shaped the surrealist art of Leonora Carrington

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b134340 The Debutante and the Hyena

To skip the boring ball her mother threw, She sent a wild hyena from the zoo.

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To find our true voice, we must embrace the wildness that polite society rejects.

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b134340 Artist Leonora Carrington and her famous short story about a hyena

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Crookhey Hall and Celtic myths

b134340 Born in Lancashire in 1917, Carrington grew up hearing stories of druids and shapeshifters from her Irish mother and nanny.

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The hyena at the Ritz

b134340 Carrington rejected her 1936 debut at court by writing about a wild hyena.

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Leonora's Hyena Ball
BETA

b134340 Guide the hyena through the debutante ball to discover Leonora Carrington's escape into Mexican surrealism.

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Fun Fact

High society rebellion: At her debutante ball at the Ritz, Leonora Carrington ignored the party to sit and read Aldous Huxley's novel 'Eyeless in Gaza'.

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Glossary
debutante (noun)
A young upper-class woman who is making her first formal appearance in society. In 1936, Leonora Carrington was reluctantly presented as one at the court of King George V.

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Gossip

Which surreal dinner prank would you pull on your friends?

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Quiz

In which English county was surrealist artist Leonora Carrington born in 1917?

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Gossip

Would you let a hyena take your place at a formal party?

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Quiz

Which cultural folklore did Leonora Carrington's Irish mother and nanny use to inspire her childhood imagination?

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Quiz

At whose royal court was Leonora Carrington formally presented as a debutante in 1936?

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Quiz

In Leonora Carrington's short story 'The Debutante,' which animal agrees to disguise itself and attend a high-society ball?

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Quiz

What major artistic event in London in 1936 first introduced Leonora Carrington to Surrealism?

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Quiz

Which German artist did Leonora Carrington meet in London in 1937 and later elope with to Paris?

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Quiz

What bizarre culinary prank was Leonora Carrington famous for playing on her dinner guests in France?

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Quiz

In which southern French village did Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst create their sculpture-filled artistic sanctuary?

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