Leonora Carrington: wild at heart

She ran off with Max Ernst, drank with the surrealists – and kept her tea under lock and key. Charlotte Higgins on the dazzling life and art of Leonora CarringtonLeonora Carrington was a debutante who ran away with the surrealists. Born in 1917, she was exactly the same age as Jessica Mitford – who eloped with Winston Churchill’s nephew to the Spanish civil war. Aside from their class (Carrington, a ravishing beauty with a cloud of curly dark hair, was presented at court in 1935), the two