Agnes Garrett

Agnes Garrett (12 July 1845–1935)[1] was an English suffragist and interior designer and the founder in 1888 of the Ladies Dwellings Company.[2]

Garrett was the daughter of Newson Garrett (1812–1893), merchant, and Louisa Garrett (1813–1903). She was the seventh of eleven children. She attended a boarding-school at Blackheath, near London.[1]

With her cousin Rhoda Garrett, Agnes opened the first interior design company in Britain to be run by women.[1][3]

Agnes's older sister was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, who was the first British woman to qualify as a doctor, and her younger sister was the leading suffragist Millicent Fawcett.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Serena Kelly, "Garrett, Agnes (1845–1935)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 9 January 2015. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Ladies' Dwellings Company. UCL Bloomsbury Project, 19 April 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  3. ↑ Crawford, Elizabeth. (2011) Spirited Women of Gower Street: The Garretts and their Circle. UCL Bloomsbury Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015. Archived here.