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Agnes Garrett

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in 1871, giving them an entry into training that no other practice was willing to allow, as architecture was not considered suitable for women. The cousins opened the first interior design company in Britain to be run by women. R & A Garrett opened in mid 1875, in a flat behind
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first met on 17 January 1872. The first committee included Garrett, as well as
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in 1885. The painting survived and it was identified by the historian
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UCL Bloomsbury Project, 19 April 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
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Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage
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Spirited Women of Gower Street: The Garretts and their Circle
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after Royal Assent to the Equal Franchise Act in 1928
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English suffragist and interior designer (1845–1935)
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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suffragist
interior designer
Ladies Dwellings Company
Newson Garrett
boarding school

Gower Street
Bloomsbury
Rhoda Garrett
John McKean Brydon
Baker Street station
Gower Street
Bloomsbury

Millicent Fawcett
Ray Strachey
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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