Effie Shaw

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.

Shaw was lecturing at Oxford University 's Extension Summer School when they met. At forty-two, he was seventeen years older than MR , and she set him on a pedestal and never thought of him...

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 .

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.