page_title: Katie Edith Gliddon
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: Katie Edith Gliddon / Early years
caption_attribution_description: English: In an Alcove. 1902. Helen Margaret "Madge" Spanton. Oil Painting on Canvas.
context_page_description: Katie Edith Gliddon was a British watercolour artist and militant suffragette. She was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union for whom she campaigned for which she was imprisoned in Holloway Prison in 1912. Specialising in painting flowers, in her later years she was a teacher of painting and drawing.
context_section_description: Gliddon was born in Twickenham in Middlesex in 1883, the daughter of Margaret Martha née Lelean (1860–1941) and Aurelius James Louis Gliddon (1857-1929), a minister for the United Reformed Church (1882–1884) and a homeopathist. The 1911 Census lists him as a General Merchant and Investment Broker and Katie Edith as an artist, she having studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1900 to 1904 under Frederick Brown and Henry Tonks. Her younger sister Gladys Evelyn Gliddon (1886-1969) was also listed as an artist. Her younger brother Lt. Maurice Gliddon MC (1892–1917) was killed in action during World War I.
caption: Katie Gliddon was the model for In an Alcove (1902) by her relative and fellow-suffragette Helen Margaret Spanton
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