had at hand including inn signs, tiles and furniture. She also decorated pottery and designed the library at Ham Spray. In 1970 David Garnett published a selection of letters and extracts from her diary, since which time critical and popular appreciation of her work has risen sharply. In 1978, Sir John Rothenstein, for nearly thirty years Director of the Tate Gallery, London, called Dora Carrington "the most neglected serious painter of her time." Carrington was one of the five artists featured in the television series Five Women Painters made in 1989 by the Arts Council and Channel 4, with accompanying book published by Lennard. In 1995 she was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Two of her works are in the Tate Gallery. In popular culture Books Diana Mitford, a close friend, profiles Carrington in Loved Ones (1985). Gerald Brenan writes about Carrington's visit to him in Spain in his 1957 autobiographical work South from Granada. In his first novel Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley based the character of Mary Bracegirdle on Carrington, and described how she and he slept on the roof of "Lollipop Hall", based on Lady Ottoline Morrell's home. He chose the name "Bracegirdle" because of Dora's chastity. Films Emma Thompson portrays Carrington in the 1995 British biographical film Carrington, written and directed by Christopher Hampton based on the book Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd. Jessica Kate Meyer portrays Carrington in the 2003 Goya Award winning Spanish film Al sur de Granada, written and directed by Fernando Colomo, based on the 1957 autobiographical book South from Granada by Gerald Brenan. References Further reading Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook (1989). Carrington: A Life. New York, W.W. Norton & Co.. Gerald Brenan, Diarios sobre Dora Carrington y otros escritos (1925-1932), editorial Confluencias, 2012. Archival sources Dora Carrington Collection, 1912-1965 (1.67 linear feet) are housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin Lytton Strachey collection of papers, 1904-1934 (596 items) are housed at the New York Public Library Gerald Brenan Collection, 1911-1978 (8.75 linear feet) are housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin External links The Grove Dictionary of Art Farm at Watendlath (1921) Dora Carrington Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin 'Carrington (and Woolf) in Cambridge, 1928', by Peter Murray Jones, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical