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Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.

Mary Leonora Carrington was born at Westwood House, Clayton Green, Chorley, Lancashire, England, in a Roman Catholic family. Her father Harold Wylde Carrington (1880-1950) was a wealthy textile manufacturer, and her mother Marie (née Moorhead) was from Ireland. She had three brothers: Patrick, Gerald, and Arthur. She lived at Crookhey Hall from 1920 until 1927, a large home in Cockerham, which exerted a great influence on her imagination.