Agnes Kate Foxwell was born in 1872, in Paddington, London, UK. Her parents were Alfred William Foxwell, a wine merchant, and his wife Mary Ann Foxwell, nee Ford. Agnes had the following siblings: Edith E., b. 1865, Lina, b. 1867, A.W., b. 1869, C.H., b. 1870, Mabel L., b. 1875, F.M. b. 1876 and Ida, b. 1877. The family lived in Paddington.
Agnes studied literature at the University of London and was awarded an MA. By 1911, she was a teacher at Cheltenham Ladies College.
During the First World War, Agnes joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment and, as her Red Cross WW1 Record cards show, from Oct.1914 - April.1915 she worked at the Auxiliary Hospital, Harrow; 1915 (period unstated) in Charing Cross Hospital; May - Aug. 1915 at the Officers' Hospital in Rouen, France; from Oct. - Nov. 1915 at the Military Hospital in Wandsworth andMarch - Sept. 1916 at St. John's Gate, Devonshire House.
Agnes then worked for six months as Principal Overlooker in Danger Buildings at the Munitions Factory in Woolwich. She wrote about her time in Woolwich in a book entitled “Munition Lasses: Six Months Principal Overlooker in Danger Buildings” which was published by Hodder & Stoughton, London in 1917. This is available as a free download from Archive https://archive.org/details/munitionlassessi00foxwuoft
Sources:
Find my Past
British Red Cross WW1 Archive
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100762258
