Statue of Liberty defeat by the Prussians. One of these was the "Lion of Belfort", a monumental sculpture carved in sandstone below the fortress of Belfort, which during the war had resisted a Prussian siege for over three months. The defiant lion, long and half that in height, displays an emotional quality characteristic of Romanticism, which Bartholdi would later bring to the Statue of Liberty. Bartholdi and Laboulaye considered how best to express the idea of American liberty. In early American history, two female figures were frequently used as cultural symbols of the nation. One of these symbols, the personified Columbia, was seen
Charlotte Payne-Townshend and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, where her ashes were kept until Shaw's death in 1950. Their ashes were taken to Shaw's Corner, mixed and then scattered along footpaths and around the statue of Saint Joan in their garden. Charlotte Payne-Townshend was also a translator. Amongst other things she translated Eugène Brieux's play "Materrnité" for the London stage. It was put on by the Stage Society, at Daly's Theatre in 1910. Shaw Library, on the sixth floor of the Old Building, London School of Economics, was founded by and named after her. Charlotte Payne-Townshend Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend (20 January