Storyological 2.10 - DARING DARRINGTONS

In which we discuss,

1. "The Debutante" by Leonora Carrington, anthologized in What Did Miss Darrington See, (originally published in 1936).

2. "An Unborn Visitant" by Vita Sackville-West, anthologized in What Did Miss Darrington See, (originally published in 1932).

Along with, among other things...

Leonora Carrington

• Nazis, nannies, and hair omelettes: Leonora Carrington, the last living Surrealist, looks back on her extraordinary life and times, Rachel Rickard & Ruth Maclean, Independent, 2009.
• Leonora Carrington: wild at heart, Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 2015.

Vita Sackville-West

• “Who was the real Vita Sackville-West”, Matthew Dennison, Telegraph, 2014.
• “Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West review - a catalogue of sexual conquests”, Rachel Cooke, The Guardian, 2014.
• “How Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West Fell in Love”, Maria Popova, Brain Pickings.
• “A Thing That Wants Virginia”, love letters in The Paris Review.

What Did Miss Darrington See

• Review in Publisher’s Weekly
• Also here’s one from Kirkus

A Surrealist Moment

• “The Case for Surrealism”, The Art Assignment, 2017.
• “How to be a Surrealist with Philippa Perry”, BBC4, 2017.
• “Manifesto of Surrealism” by André Breton, 1924.
• The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection, The Tate Modern, 2017.

Some Other Acts of Art We Mentioned During This One Episode

• Grand Illusion, Roger Ebert, The Great Movies, 1999.
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf, the titular character of which was inspired, it seems was Vita Sackville-West.
• “Franny” by J.D. Salinger, which we discussed in that one episode of our podcast: COZY MYSTERIES OF VARIOUS COZINESS.
• Octavia Butler’s tale of time travel and family. Kindred.

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