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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.
May 25, 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.
Charlotte Payne-Townshend Shaw, who had suffered from osteitis deformans for many years, died aged eighty-six on 12th September 1943. By John Simkin ( john@spartacus-educational.com ) © September 1997 (updated January 2020).
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May 20, 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.
Jan 24, 2014 · 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.
Sep 27, 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 Woman.
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. LSE's first home.
