Katharine Gatty

[1] After joining the Ealing branch of the Women's Social and Political Union[6] Gatty became a militant suffragette, on one occasion chaining herself to the gates at Hyde Park.

[1] In November 1911 Gatty was sentenced to three weeks imprisonment in Holloway Prison[8] after taking part in a campaign of window smashing after the government 'torpedoed' the anticipated Conciliation Bill which was seen as a progressive step towards achieving women's suffrage.

[3][9] In January 1912 she was again arrested while causing a disturbance when women had been excluded from the trial of Emily Davison, but this time she was released without charge.

On her release from prison in August 1911 she was immediately rearrested for smashing a window at the post office in Abergavenny in Wales, stating that she had done so to protest against the exclusion of women from such official lists as the electoral register.

[3][9] By 1913 Gatty was an organiser for the National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks[2] while in her later years she had links to the Communist Party,[9] regularly corresponding with the journalist and activist Anna Louise Strong.

[13] In total she was imprisoned nine times for her activities on behalf of women's suffrage and the movement to abolish capital punishment.

Gatty was an active member of the International Coordination Committee for Aid to Republican Spain, and was one of the organisers of the Co-operative Party in England in addition to being a lifelong advocate of Irish Home Rule.

[18][19] In September 1934 Gatty, representing Action Feministe Internationale, attended a conference on 'Ethiopia and Justice' organised by Sylvia Pankhurst at the Central Hall, Westminster.

In 1937 Gatty, describing herself an author "writing a book" and a widow despite the fact her husband was still alive,[19] moved to California to the United States, residing there during the 1940s.