Agnes Garrett

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Agnes Garrett
interior designer and the founder in 1888 of the Ladies Dwellings Company.[2]

Life

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

No. 2, Gower Street in Bloomsbury

She and her cousin

Baker Street station, moving to 2 Gower Street in Bloomsbury c.1884.[1][3][4]

Millicent Fawcett, Agnes Garrett, Miss Fawcett and Ray Strachey after Royal Assent to the Equal Franchise Act in 1928

Agnes's older sister was

UNISON headquarters building.[5]

She was painted by the artist Annie Swynnerton in 1885. The painting survived and it was identified by the historian Elizabeth Crawford in the 2020s.[6]

Her younger sister was the leading suffragist Millicent Fawcett.[1] At Jacob Bright's suggestion it was decided to create a London-based organisation to lobby members of parliament concerning women's suffrage. The Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage first met on 17 January 1872. The first committee included Garrett, as well as Frances Power Cobbe, Priscilla Bright McLaren and Lilias Ashworth Hallett.[7]

Garrett died in 1935.[1]

References

  1. ^
    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. Archived 2015-01-09 at the Wayback Machine UCL Bloomsbury Project. Retrieved 9 January 2015. Archived here.
  4. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53628. Retrieved 11 July 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  5. ^ "EGA for Women - The Elizabeth Garret Anderson Gallery". www.egaforwomen.org.uk. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  6. ^ "Woman and her Sphere". Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
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