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...Party was not a freak explosion of radical patriotism. Rather, it climaxed a long, uneven series of national differences and emotional misunderstandings ignited by the passage of the Townshend duties in 1767. The colonists resisted these duties so effectively that parliament soon had to repeal them, but the tax on imported tea was left in force. By 1770, however, efforts to organize a boycott of the wicked brew had failed. The prosperous colonies had grown too fond of the beverage to give it up, enabling smugglers to carry on a thriving trade in untaxed Dutch...
...lady, and loathed the limelight. He was a Socialist and no gentleman, and feasted on celebrity. It seemed on all counts an improbable match; yet by Shavian standards it had a certain compelling illogic. As it turned out, the marriage of George Bernard Shaw and Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend lasted 45 years and was, by any measure, a fairly successful...
...light than popular heroes on the life of the times. He proves his point with some engaging, subtle portraits. There was Daniel Pulteney, who went into Parliament to gain immunity from arrests for debts and stayed to poke fun at the pretensions of his fellow M.P.s. There was Charles Townshend, the erratic M.P. who did as much as anyone to precipitate the American Revolution, by imposing the onerous Townshend duties on the colonies. Namier traces his troubles to a tyrannical father: "A rebel towards his father and his political chiefs, he turned into a heavy father when acting...
Intellect as Passion. Shaw left no children and "expressed regret that his marriage had been fruitless." The fact was, says Biographer Ervine, that Charlotte Payne-Townshend had a morbid "horror of sexual relations." But no man ever had a better helpmate than Charlotte. When she died in 1943, Shaw became "hysterical" with sorrow, shedding tears one moment and trying to sing the next...
...comes between them. He is an Oxford-educated rancher, but a Don Juan rather than a don. One of the girls ropes him, of course. The other gets a consolation prize: a mere unlarned cow poke, he is, who did not even get to Cambridge. Miss Harriet Townshend is vintage Kathleen Norris-sweet, inoffensive, forgettable...