Background
Glasier was born in Stoke Newington as Katharine Street John Conway, the second of seven children.
Glasier was born in Stoke Newington as Katharine Street John Conway, the second of seven children.
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.
Early years
Her older brother was Robert Seymour Conway. The family moved to Walthamstow while she was young. Notwithstanding the practice of Cambridge University, which did not award degrees to women at that time, she appended the usual Bachelor to her name.
She was one of the fifteen members and the only woman elected to the ILP"s first national administrative council in January 1893.
They had three children: Jeannie, Malcolm, and John Glendower (known as Glen). In the early years of the twentieth century, Glasier wrote for a number of publication.
She remained prominent in the ILP, and in 1916 took over from Fenner Brockway as editor of its newspaper, the Labour Leader. Initially a highly successful editor, disputes about her support for the Bolsheviks led to a decline in sales.
The editorship was taken over by H. North. Brailsford.
In the 1920s, Glasier joined the Society of Friends and the Theosophical Society. She moved in Glen Cottage, in Earby in Lancashire, from 1922 until her death. Her younger son, Glen, died in 1928.
After her death Glen Cottage was donated the Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales) for use as a youth hostel.
lieutenant remains used for this purpose although the building is now owned by Pendle Borough Council. Death and legacy
Katharine died in 1950 after a short illness.
In Earby, Lancashire.
Conway became a teacher at Redland High School in Bristol, where she was inspired to join the Bristol Socialist Society after seeing a demonstration by striking female cottonworkers. She became the ILP"s National Organiser, but resigned in 1931 when the ILP left the Labour Party, continuing to work for the Labour Party, after a brief flirtation with the Socialist League.
She began lecturing for the organisation, and in 1893 became a founding member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP).