About Gertrude Metcalfe-Shaw
Lived 1866 – 1944 (aged 77–78). Gertrude Metcalfe-Shaw was a British suffragette and writer.
Gertrude E. Metcalfe-Shaw (born 1864) was a British Suffragette and writer. She was twice arrested and she was awarded a Hunger Strike Medal. She later set out on a caravan journey in the 1920s to cross America from California to New York. Her account was published.
Life She was born in 1864 She had been released after going on hunger strike and she was awarded a medal recording her hunger strike and the two periods of imprisonment.
In October 2024 her WSPU medal and suffragette story featured on the BBC programme Antiques Roadshow. The experts valued her medal and her family's mementoes at £25,000 to £30,000.
Private life She married Edward Shaw and they had four children. Her sister-in-law was the painter, Helen Lavinia Cochrane who died in 1946. Her portrait of Metcalfe-Shaw is extant.
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Who was Gertrude Metcalfe-Shaw?
UK suffragette and writer
When was Gertrude Metcalfe-Shaw born?
Gertrude Metcalfe-Shaw was born in 1866.
When did Gertrude Metcalfe-Shaw die?
Gertrude Metcalfe-Shaw died on 24 January 1944.
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Gertrude Metcalfe-Shaw was a suffragette and writer.
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Gertrude Metcalfe-Shaw was British.
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