[1][4] In 1892, Garrett married John Haden Badley, a former classmate of her brother at Trinity College, Cambridge, which whom she had a son.

[1] Girls first joined the school in the Autumn of 1898, due in no small part to "the determination and persistence of Mrs Badley", whose promotion of women's suffrage in the area was well known.

[11] This made Bedales the first English boarding school which admitted boys and girls on a fully equal basis.

[11][8] At Bedales, Amy Badley is also said to have contributed "her own musical gifts and an indomitable and active concern for the emancipation of women".

[1] An obituary in The Times recalled as her as having had "an active share" in the "more important changes" of the era in which she'd lived, such as "the regeneration in this country of music, the reform of education, [and] the liberation of women from medieval and early Victorian limitations".