Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend was an Irish political activist in Britain.
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11 Facts About Charlotte Payne-Townshend
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend was a member of the Fabian Society and was dedicated to the struggle for women's rights.
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend fell in love with Axel Munthe, but he never asked for her hand in marriage.
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Beatrice and Sidney Webb persuaded Charlotte Payne-Townshend to donate £1,000 to the London School of Economics library and the endowment of a woman's scholarship.
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend is a socialist and a radical, not because she understands the collectivist standpoint, but because she is by nature a rebel.
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend is fond of men and impatient of most women, bitterly resents her enforced celibacy but thinks she could not tolerate the matter-of-fact side of marriage.
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend rejected the idea because he was poor and she was rich and people might consider him a "fortune-hunter".
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend told Ellen Terry that the proposal was like an "earthquake" and he "with shuddering horror and wildly asked the fare to Australia".
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend wrote to Charlotte complaining that he was unable to walk.
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend learnt to read his shorthand and to type, took dictation and helped him prepare his plays for the press.
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend died from Paget's disease in 1943, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, where her ashes were kept until Shaw's death in 1950.
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