Catherine Gasquoine Hartley (c.1867-1928) was an author, journalist, and headmistress. Hartley (also known as Catherine Gasquoine Hartley or Mrs Walter Gallican) was a writer and art historian with a particular expertise on Spanish art. Latterly she wrote about polygamy, motherhood and sex education. Hartley was born in 1866 or 1867 in Antananarivo in Madagascar to Reverend Richard Griffiths and Catherine (née Gasquoine) who were from Manchester. Her parents had served as missionaries in Mauritius before they went to Madagascar. Her father left them with a poor financial position when he died in 1870 after the family had returned to Hampshire. Hartley inherited her father's need to teach and she was brought up in Southport where she first worked as a teacher. She rose to be the headteacher at a school in Eltham in Kent in 1894. She left this post to write sometime around 1903. She published Life: the Modeller which was a novel set against her knowledge of art, although its history attracted only minor interest. A second novel, The Weaver's Shuttle, appeared in 1905 Hartley became the second wife of the journalist and writer Walter Matthew Gallichan on 9 May 1901. He had written under the name 'Geoffrey Mortimer'. After their marriage her husband wrote under his own name and Hartley assigned her work to "C. Gasquoine Hartley (Mrs Walter Gallichan)". After their marriage the two wrote about their leisurely lifestyle. They had a house in Youlgreave in Derbyshire where they put together The Story of Seville which was published as part of The Medieval Towns series of guides. The illustrations for the book were made by Hartley's sister, Elizabeth. She was hit by a van in 1928 and as a result died on 9 June in hospital in Guildford. Hartley was buried in the Willesden Jewish cemetery beside her second husband. Less