George William Hudson Shaw

MR met her great love and eventual husband, the Rev. Hudson Shaw , a radical Liberal Anglican. Though they loved each other at sight, they did not marry until forty-three years later.

After the Rev. Hudson Shaw 's wife Effie died in February of this year, MR and Shaw married. They held their wedding in a country church in Kent.

The Rev. Hudson Shaw invited MR to work as a sort of unpaid curate in his little country parish at South Luffenham.

Through the Rev. Hudson Shaw 's influence as a lecturer at Oxford University 's Extension Summer School , MR became a lecturer in English literature in the Extension Delegacy programme.

The Rev. Hudson Shaw , then rector of St Botolph without Bishopsgate, asked MR to conduct its annual Three-Hour Service. The Bishop of London intervened, however, and the service was held in the Parish...

In 1912, MR wrote two letters to the editor of the Times to defend the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and its publications against the critical judgements of the well-known anti-suffragist writer Mary Augusta Ward

Brought up in a Conservative family, MR began in her late twenties and early thirties to develop the Socialist views she espoused throughout her adulthood. She said, however, I never joined any party ....

Maude Royden , famous as an early twentieth-century campaigner for women's status in the ministry of the Church of England , was also a preacher, suffragist, feminist, and anti-war activist. She published at least fifty...

MR moved from Oxford to Alderly Rectory in North Cheshire to live with the Rev. Hudson Shaw and his wife Effie .

The Rev. Hudson Shaw became rector of St Botolph without Bishopsgate in London, and MR moved with him and his wife into a flat in Bedford Square.

In 1952 MR moved from Kent, where she had lived with Shaw at the end of his life, to Golders Green.

MR 's autobiography, A Threefold Cord, which largely focuses on her unconventional, platonic, three-way relationship with the Rev. Hudson Shaw and his wife Effie , appeared three years after Shaw's death.