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Charlotte Payne-Townshend. 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 .
May 25, 2021 · – Charlotte Payne-Townshend. 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.
Beatrice Webb recorded in her diary that Charlotte Payne-Townshend was clearly in love with George Bernard Shaw but she did not believe that he felt the same way: "I see no sign on his side of the growth of any genuine and steadfast affection." In July 1897 Charlotte proposed marriage.
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May 20, 2016 · Charlotte was a wealthy Irish heiress who married the celebrated, though penniless, playwright in 1898. Their relationship has long fascinated critics and historians; the 2010 off-Broadway production of Engaging Shaw, which followed […]
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.
Charlotte Payne-Townshend (1857-1943) was an Irish heiress and a political activist. She married the playwright George Bernard Shaw in 1898 at the registry office in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Charlotte Payne Townsend, 1932.
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.
