Rhoda Garrett (28 March 1841 – 22 November 1882)
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"Rhoda Garrett (1841–1882)"
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, 2004. Retrieved 9 January 2015. was an English
suffragist
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and
interior designer
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.
With her cousin
Agnes Garrett, Rhoda opened the first interior design company in Britain to be run by women.
[ The cousins were apprenticed to London architect John McKean Brydon in 1873. R & A Garrett opened in mid 1874, in a flat behind Baker Street station, moving to 2 Gower Street in Bloomsbury mid1875.
Together they wrote and published ''Suggestions for House Decoration'' in 1876, part of the 'Art at Home' series of interior decoration and household taste manuals published by Macmillan under the general editorship of W. J. Loftie. It was illustrated with engravings of furniture and rooms, probably of their own home at Gower Street, which was also their business premises.]Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917) was an English physician and suffragist. She was the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. She was the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, ...
, Rhoda's cousin, at 4 Upper Berkeley Street
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in the fashionable West End of London
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, to which she and her husband Skelton had moved in June 1874.
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1841 births
1882 deaths
English suffragists
English interior designers
People from Derbyshire
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