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Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend (20 January 1857 – 12 September 1943) [1] [2] was an Irish political activist in Britain. She was a member of the Fabian Society and was dedicated to the struggle for women's rights. She married the playwright George Bernard Shaw .
25. Mai 2021 · Described by her friend Beatrice Webb, Charlotte Payne-Townshend was “an anarchist – feeling any regulation or rule is intolerable – a tendency which has been exaggerated by her intolerable wealth. She is romantic but thinks herself cynical. She is a socialist and a radical, but not because she understands collectivist ...
20. Mai 2016 · She was a prominent backer of feminist review The Freewoman when it was going through financial crisis, and she racked up column inches for marching in the Boston Suffrage Parade of 1914.
On 1 June 1898, while on crutches and recuperating from surgery for necrosis of the bone, Shaw married his informal nurse, Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend, at the office of the registrar at 15 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. He was nearly forty-two; the bride, a wealthy Irishwoman born at Londonderry on 20 January 1857, thus a half-year ...
Biographical Note. Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend Shaw was born in 1857, in Derry, Ireland. Her father died in 1885, leaving Charlotte a wealthy heiress. She played a role in founding the London School of Economics, donating the funds to establish a library at the school.
Charlotte Payne Townshend (1857-1943) was an Irish heiress who met Beatrice and Sidney Webb in 1895. Through them she joined the Fabian Society and in 1896 she was invited to spend a holiday with the Webbs, Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw in Suffolk.
27. Sept. 1981 · The woman Shaw married was equally forbidding. A fellow Fabian named Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend, she was the daughter of a wealthy Irish barrister and the very model of his New...
