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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.
Jan 24, 2014 · 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.
British History > Women's Suffrage > Charlotte Payne-Townshend Shaw. Charlotte Payne-Townshend, the daughter of Horace Townshend, was born in 1857. She grew up in a wealthy Irish family in County Cork before moving to England. Charlotte met Beatrice Webb in 1895. Webb wrote: "A large graceful woman with masses of chocolate brown hair...
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.
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.
“She knows the value of her unencumbered independence” (George Bernard Shaw) 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-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.
Apr 15, 2023 · In 1897, Charlotte Payne-Townshend, an unmarried 40-year-old Irish heiress with radical ideas, wrote to an American friend she had met in Rome. Charlotte's financial wealth was matched by a rich resource of ideas about what she might do with her life, but she couldn't see any clear direction through these.
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.
