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‘Garrett Laburnum’
One of the pleasures in working on the creation of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Gallery was to be able to help bring back to life the only surviving wallpaper created by the firm of ‘Rhoda and Agnes...
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Mrs Millicent Vince: Pupil of Agnes Garrett And Interior Decorator
In the post ‘Garrett Laburnum’ mentioned that I had come across the sliver of the this wallpaper designed by Rhoda and Agnes Garrett as a photo in a book by one of Agnes’ pupils, Millicent Vince....
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Music For Garrett Rooms: Hubert Parry’s ‘English Lyrics’
The most detailed account of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett at work as ‘house designers’ is, as far as I have been able to establish, recorded in the diary of the composer, Hubert Parry. He was their close...
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2 Gower Street – Royal Holloway College – and a Sense of Place
Number 2 Gower Street – just past the north-east corner of Bedford Square in Bloomsbury – was home to Agnes Garrett from 1874. She lived there first with her cousin and partner, Rhoda, and then with...
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Suffrage Stories: ‘Madame Mantalini’
Since 2009, when details of the 1911 census were released, I have (with, for a time, Dr Jill Liddington) been investigating how the women of the country responded to the call issued by the more...
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What was hanging in the drawing-room of 6 Gower Street in 1898?
One day in 1898 Dr William Garnett, secretary to the Technical Board of the London County Council, called at 6 Gower Street, home of Louisa and Fanny Wilkinson, close friends of their next-door-but...
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