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1. biblioklept.org › 2014/01/05 › the-debutante-a-short“The Debutante,” A Short Story by Leonora Carrington

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   Jan 5, 2014 · “The Debutante” by Leonora Carrington. WHEN I was a debutante I often went to the zoological garden. I went so often that I was better acquainted with animals than with the young girls of my age. It was to escape from the world that I found myself each day at the zoo. The beast I knew best was a young hyena. She knew me too.

2. operetta-research-center.org › victor-herbert-debutanteVictor Herbert’s "The Debutante" (1914) Resurrected In New ...

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   Nov 27, 2019 · The story concerns the titular young lady Elaine (Claire Leyden), betrothed since childhood to her playmate Phil (Drew Bolander). The young man has been in Paris, and fallen head over heels for a femme fatale from the comic opera there, Irma (Alexa Devlin).

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3. www.shortoftheweek.com › 2024/05/10 › the-debutanteThe Debutante - an Animated Short Film by Elizabeth Hobbs

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   May 10, 2024 · The tale of a young woman’s strained relationship with her family’s money and good English manners, this surreal eight-minute animation tells of how she got a hyena from the zoo to take her place at an exclusive ball.

4. apersonalanthology.com › 2021/02/05 › the-debutante‘The Debutante’ by Leonora Carrington - A Personal Anthology

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   Feb 5, 2021 · In ‘The Debutante’, the female narrator is a frequent visitor to her local zoo. There she befriends a hyena, who turns out to be very intelligent – “I taught her French and she, in turn, taught me her language.” Keen to avoid playing the debutante and going to a ball, she and the hyena plot to swap places.

5. lithub.com › leonora-carringtons-days-as-aLeonora Carrington’s Days as a Debutante and Art Student

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   Aug 22, 2023 · Leonora referred to the debutante season as “a cattle market,” and it’s clear that it epitomized everything she had come to loathe about the society in which she found herself: snobbery, fixed expectations, lack of spontaneity, sexism.

6. www.imdb.com › title › tt31193813The Debutantes (2024) - IMDb

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   Jun 7, 2024 · The Debutantes: Directed by Contessa Gayles. Through personal video diaries and dance, three teens Amelia, Dedra, and Teylar navigate identity, gender norms, and realize dreams of college, medicine or business.

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   Is the Debutante a true story?

   • “The Debutante” is a glorious mixture of fact and fiction, the actual and the imagined, events real and events surreal. Leonora describes how, as a debutante, she often visited the zoo: “I went so often that I knew the animals better than I knew the girls of my own age.

   Leonora Carrington’s Days as a Debutante and Art Student

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   Who is the narrator in the debutante?

   • In ‘ The Debutante’ , the female narrator is a frequent visitor to her local zoo. There she befriends a hyena, who turns out to be very intelligent – “I taught her French and she, in turn, taught me her language.” Keen to avoid playing the debutante and going to a ball, she and the hyena plot to swap places.

   ‘The Debutante’ by Leonora Carrington – A Personal Anthology

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   What did Leonora Carrington say about being a debutante?

   • “The Debutante” by Leonora Carrington WHEN I was a debutante I often went to the zoological garden. I went so often that I was better acquainted with animals than with the young girls of my age. It was to escape from the world that I found myself each day at the zoo. The beast I knew best was a young hyena. She knew me too.

   “The Debutante,” A Short Story by Leonora Carrington

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   What is the plot of a hyena vs a debutante?

   • Keen to avoid playing the debutante and going to a ball, she and the hyena plot to swap places. This involves killing her maid Mary, so that the hyena can nibble off her face and adopt it as a mask. The prose is clean and simple, and the merry tone of the story makes the sudden swerve towards violence even more blackly comic and disturbing.

   ‘The Debutante’ by Leonora Carrington – A Personal Anthology

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   Why did Leonora call the debutante season a cattle market?

   • Leonora referred to the debutante season as “a cattle market,” and it’s clear that it epitomized everything she had come to loathe about the society in which she found herself: snobbery, fixed expectations, lack of spontaneity, sexism.

   Leonora Carrington’s Days as a Debutante and Art Student

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   Was Leonora a debutante?

   • Leonora dispensed with being a debutante as briskly as she had dispensed with being a convent schoolgirl and a finishing-school pupil; but giving up the frivolity of the season didn’t mean giving up the artistic opportunities London had to offer.

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8. www.skwigly.co.uk › elizabeth-hobbs-the-debutanteThe Debutante | Interview with Director Elizabeth Hobbs

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   Mar 4, 2024 · The Debutante by Elizabeth Hobbs is an experimental tour de force based on the partially biographical writing of the British-born surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. Hobbs’s new film takes the uptight world of 1930s debutante society and imbues it with an impish sense of wild freedom.