Mary Stanley Low (14 May 1912 – 9 January 2007) was a British-Cuban political activist, Trotskyist, surrealist poet, artist and Latin teacher.

The couple became lovers and travelled extensively in Europe, including trips to Prague, Vienna, Belgrade, Istanbul, Bucharest, Brussels and London, and visited Breá's native Cuba.

[5] Low and Breá travelled to Barcelona,[6] in August 1936, following the military uprising against the Spanish Republic in July 1936 and crossed into Spain from France.

[4] The book was forwarded by the Marxist historian and critic Cyril Lionel Robert James,[10][11] and was praised by the author and journalist George Orwell in a review for Time and Tide magazine.

[13] In the book, Low disputed claims that milicianas were mostly concerned with their appearance,[14] recounted the burial of the anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti after his death in November 1936,[7] and noted her experiences of the bureaucratic culture of politicians of the Catalan government in contrast to the "egalitarian" mood on the street.

[4] During this period they also co-wrote the French language book of surrealist poetry La Saison des flûtes, which was released by Editions Surréalistes of Paris.

[16] Low and Breá witnessed the occupation of the streets of Prague by Nazi German troops in the early period of World War II.

In February 1940, Low and Breá emigrated to Cuba from Europe, after obtaining safe-conduct papers through their acquaintance with a German cultural attaché who was a member of the nobility.

[4] She next published the poetry volume Tres voces – Three Voices – Trois Vois in 1957, which was a trilingual book illustrated by José Mijares.

[4] In 1964, Low moved to live in Australia for ten years,[16] before settling in Florida, United States, where she contributed to the growing American surrealist movement.