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Payne-Townshend in 1932. Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend (20 January 1857 – 12 September 1943) 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 de mai. de 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.
24 de jan. de 2014 · Charlotte Shaw, 1904. LSE. 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.
20 de mai. de 2016 · BIOGRAPHY: Charlotte Payne-Townshend. “She knows the value of her unencumbered independence”, wrote George Bernard Shaw of his future wife, Charlotte Payne-Townshend, in the early days of their courtship. Charlotte was a wealthy Irish heiress who married the celebrated, though penniless, playwright in 1898.
31 de mar. de 2024 · Charlotte Payne Townshend, later Shaw, was LSE's first benefactor, an governor and a member of the Library committee. Without Charlotte’s financial assistance, LSE would have had neither its first home in Adelphi Terrace, nor the Shaw Library.
25 de ago. de 2021 · Charlotte Payne-Townshend first met the Webbs in 1895 and was described by Beatrice Webb in her diary as “by nature a rebel”. A wealthy Irish heiress she soon joined the Fabian Society and in 1896 went on holiday in Suffolk with the Webbs, Graham Wallas and G Bernard Shaw.
Learn about Charlotte Payne-Townshend, an Irish heiress and a political activist who married the playwright George Bernard Shaw in 1898. She supported his career, feminism, vegetarianism, and Irish nationalism, and founded the Shaw Library and a woman's scholarship.
