Joanna Moorhead

Standard Name: Moorhead, Joanna

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Leonora Carrington
LC had three brothers (Pat, Gerard, and Arthur Carrington) whose gendered childhoods were more expansive than hers. Her biographer Joanna Moorhead notes that LC resented her brothers' freedom to play beyond their home and study...
Family and Intimate relationships Leonora Carrington
In 2006 novelist Joanna Moorhead contacted LC , her maternal great-aunt, who had largely been out of contact with her family in England since her mother's death. Moorhead regularly visited LC in Mexico City and...
Reception Leonora Carrington
LC 's maternal niece Joanna Moorhead published her biography The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington this year, the centenary of Carrington's birth. The book was released by Virago Press .
Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
prelims
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

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Texts

Moorhead, Joanna. “Blooming marvellous: the world’s first female photographer—and her botanical beauties”. theguardian.com.
Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.