Mrs Emma Katherine Gillett Gatty

Other sources: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4769024
Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866?1928 (1999)

Additional Information: Katherine was first imprisoned in Holloway in 1909 for one month. She took part in the WSPU window smashing, which resulted from the government's 'torpedoing' of the anticipated Conciliation Bill in 1911, which would have been a progressive move towards women's suffrage. She was sent to Holloway again for three weeks. Katherine was close friends with suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, and was arrested in early 1912 for 'causing a disturbance' after protesting about women's exclusion from Emily's trial in court that year. In March 1912, she was arrested for her part in a WSPU window-smashing campaign and was sentenced to six months in prison. By June, she joined in a prison hunger strike. Once out of prison in August, she was arrested again for breaking a window at the post office in Abergavenny, Wales. She said that she did so to protest against women's exclusion from lists like the electoral register. She was sentenced to one month in prison but with hard labour, and this had a significant impact on her health. Towards the end of 1912, Katherine became secretary to the Suffrage Atelier (SA), a London-based suffrage artists organisation that produced many postcards, posters and banners for the women's suffrage movement.

Other Suffrage Activities: Katherine was an organiser for the National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks in 1913 and later in life had links to the Communist Party. She emigrated to Australia in 1947, where she remained until her death.