Charlotte Payne-Townshend
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Charlotte Payne-Townshend (1859-1943)[1] was a wealthy Anglo-Irish woman, member of the Fabian Society and dedicated to the struggle for women's rights. She married George Bernard Shaw in 1898 after nursing him through an illness. They settled in Ayot St. Lawrence [2], a village in Hertfordshire, England (see Shaw's Corner), but traveled the world extensively during the 1930s. She resolved to have no children and abstained from sex completely throughout the marriage, although she often stripped nude for her husband[citation needed]. The couple were residing in a London flat when she died of osteitis deformans, a chronic bone disease[3].
