Katherine Glasier

Katharine Glasier (25 September 1867 - 14 June 1950) was a British socialist journalist. Glasier was born in Stoke Newington as Katharine St John Conway, the second of seven children. Her older brother was Robert Seymour Conway. Their father, Samuel Conway, was a Congregationalist minister based at Chipping Ongar, Essex; his wife, Amy (née Curling) came from a well-off family from Stoke Newington. The family moved to Walthamstow while she was young. She attended Hackney High School for Girls and studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge with a scholarship, graduating with a degree in the second class. Notwithstanding the practice of Cambridge University, which did not award degrees to women at that time, she appended the usual BA...