Editing Lee Miller (section)

==Early life and education ==
Miller was born on April 23, 1907, in [[Poughkeepsie, New York]]. Her parents were Theodore and Florence Miller (née MacDonald). Her father was of German descent, and her mother was of Scottish and Irish descent. She had a younger brother named Erik, and her older brother was the aviator [[Johnny Miller (aviator)|Johnny Miller]]. Theodore always favored Lee, and often used her as a model for his amateur photography.<ref name="2007-09-08 Guardian">{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Ali |author-link1=Ali Smith |date=September 8, 2007 |title=The look of the moment |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/08/photography.art |url-status=live 
 |newspaper=The Guardian  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230913104212/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/08/photography.art |archive-date=September 13, 2023 |access-date=March 14, 2024 |quote=Gifted, beautiful and unpredictable, Lee Miller's career took her from the fashion pages of Vogue to the front line of the second world war. But while she is celebrated as one of the finest photographers of the 20th century, her great talents as a writer are often forgotten, argues Ali Smith.}}</ref> When she was seven years old, Lee was raped while staying with a family friend in [[Brooklyn]] and was infected with [[gonorrhea]].<ref name="2013-01-27 Independent">{{cite news |last=Darwent |first=Charles |date=January 27, 2013 |title=Man crush: When Man Ray met Lee Miller |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/man-crush-when-man-ray-met-lee-miller-8463783.html |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The Independent]]  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231206183118/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/man-crush-when-man-ray-met-lee-miller-8463783.html |archive-date=December 6, 2023 |access-date=March 14, 2024 |quote=A major new exhibition finally explores the extraordinary effect an unlikely meeting with the model Lee Miller had on the Surrealist Man Ray.}}</ref> In her childhood, Miller was expelled from almost every school she attended while living in the Poughkeepsie area.<ref name="NGS">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/lee-miller|title=Lee Miller|publisher=National Galleries of Scotland|access-date=March 4, 2020|archive-date=July 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701103058/https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/lee-miller|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1925, aged 18, Miller moved to [[Paris]] in France, where she studied lighting, costume, and design at the [[Ladislas Medgyes]]' School of Stagecraft.<ref name="NGS" /> She returned to New York in 1926 and joined an experimental drama programme at [[Vassar College]], taught by [[Hallie Flanagan]], a pioneer of [[experimental theatre]].<ref name="NGS" /><ref name="Brit">{{Cite encyclopaedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Miller|title=Lee Miller {{!}} American photographer, artist, and model|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|access-date=March 4, 2020|archive-date=September 5, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905210742/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lee-Miller|url-status=live}}</ref> Soon after, Miller left home at 19 to enroll in the [[Art Students League of New York]] in [[Manhattan]] to study life drawing and painting.<ref name="NGS" /><ref name="Brit" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Dictionary of Women Artists|last=Foley|first=Jeana K.|publisher=[[Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers]]|year=1997|isbn=1-884964-21-4|editor-last=Gaze|editor-first=Delia|volume=2 (Artists J-Z)|location=London|page=953|chapter=Miller, Lee|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofwome0002unse/page/953/mode/1up}}</ref>