Lesley A Hall: I am just a little deja vue about this, because surely I have seen Leonora Carrington being rediscovered on previous occasions? But find this a bit of a pattern with women creators perhaps.... constantly needing rediscovery?

I am just a little deja vue about this, because surely I have seen Leonora Carrington being rediscovered on previous occasions? But find this a bit of a pattern with women creators perhaps.... constantly needing rediscovery?

I love Leonora Carrington's work. Her life story is truly fascinating, and her best friend in her Mexico years, Remedios Varo, was the inspiration behind the Surrealist painter Anna Naverra in my novel The Wood Wife. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Long ignored, at last the surrealist art of Leonora Carrington is getting the attention it’s duewww.theguardian.com The artist and writer is celebrated in a new UK show – but why was a woman of such talent so little known in her lifetime, asks her cousin?

It’s ridiculous. One of her books provided the title of the Venice Biennale! It’s coming up now (again) because one of her paintings broke a record at auction.

Oh and now having seen the author (who has curated a show that appears to draw mainly from the big retrospective in Mexico City a number of years ago) I understand better.

I think I’ve seen at least one rediscovery too.

Didn’t Mary & Bryan Talbot do a graphic novel about her a year ago?

www.mary-talbot.co.uk/armed-with-m...

Armed with Madness, the Surreal Leonora Carringtonwww.mary-talbot.co.uk Reluctant muse and feminist champion… society heiress and rebel refugee… the last of the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington played many roles in her long and extraordinary life. Renouncing…

Heavens, yes. Carrington, Varo, and the other women Surrealists are "rediscovered" and then ignored again on a regular basis. It's a bit like those constantly recurring articles "discovering" that women write fantasy literature. Definitely a pattern for women in the arts, alas.

I am probably a bit sensitised this week to 'forgotten foremothers' because of a big splashy article about a 'forgotten' Victorian feminist who was pretty much unavoidable in women's history circles during the 1990s/early 00s, in my experience. 'Hadn't heard of her' =/= 'forgotten'.

Hmmm the 1995 film Carrington with Emma Thompson was one such rediscovery.

Wrong Carrington, that was Dora.

Oh yeah....oh well, this is why recovery keeps happening

The Hearing Trumpet is a straight weirdo masterpiece

Didn't Virago republish that in the 70s or 80s???

I recall one, when the movie with Emma Thompson playing her came out. Jonathan Pryce played Lytton Strachey. That was ... mid-1990s?

That was Dora Carrington, also an artist but not a surrealist!

And no relation, as far as I recall.

Ohh! You learn something new everyday. I genuinely wasn't aware, thank you so much!

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