Flora Shaw

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FS is best known as a journalist with strong views on imperialism, who influenced both official policy and the British public through her position as colonial editor for the Times. She believed that journalism was the best way for her, as a woman at that time, to exercise political influence. She was also the author of four works of children's fiction, of three books on the political history of states in the British empire, of addresses to various bodies, and of countless articles for newspapers and journals other than the Times.
Flora Shaw and her husband Sir Frederick Lugard.

Milestones

19 December 1852

FS was born at 2 Dundas Terrace in Woolwich.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By 1878

FS published Castle Blair, a work of children's fiction: the title-page says 1878, but bibliographer S. Austin Allibone gives the date as 1877, so the book was probably post-dated.
Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott.
Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable.
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May 1890-September 1900

FS published nearly six hundred articles, leaders and columns in the Times, in which she examined British colonies and advocated the expansion and consolidation of the Empire.
Helly, Dorothy O., and Helen Callaway. “Journalism as Active Politics: Flora Shaw, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>The Times</span> and South Africa”. The South African War Reappraised, edited by Donal Lowry, Manchester University Press, pp. 50-66.
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Perham, Margery. Lugard. Collins.
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1918

FS was awarded a DBE for her work with the War Refugees Committee .
Although Shaw's biographer claims she was awarded the DBE in 1916 it must have been awarded in 1918 as indicated in her Obituary in the Times since the Order was established by King George on 4 June 1917.
Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable.
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“Obituary: Lady Lugard: A Journalist of Empire”. Times, p. 17.
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“Obituary: Lady Lugard: A Journalist of Empire”. Times, p. 17.
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25 January 1929

FS , Lady Lugard, died of pneumonia at the age of seventy-six.
Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable.
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Biography

Birth and Background

19 December 1852

FS was born at 2 Dundas Terrace in Woolwich.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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