Katherine Glasier

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Katherine Glasier (25 September 1867 - 14 June 1950) was a British socialist journalist.

Born in Stoke Newington as Katherine St John Conway, she was the younger sister of Robert Seymour Conway. She attended Hackney High School for Girls and Newnham College.

Conway became a teacher in Bristol and joined the Bristol Socialist Society. She lost her job and moved in with Dan Irving to care for his wife, also joining the Fabian Society. She began lecturing for the organisation, and in 1893 became a founding member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP). The same year, she married John Bruce Glasier.

In the early years of the twentieth century, Glasier wrote for a number of publication, and published a novel, Marget: A Twentieth-Century Novel. She remained prominent in the ILP, and in 1916 took over 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, and she suffered a nervous breakdown in 1921.

In the 1920s, Glasier joined the Society of Friends and the Theosophical Society. She became the ILP's National Organiser, but resigned in 1931 when the ILP left the Labour Party.