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Agnes Garrett


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

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.

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

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.

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