Shaw was born in 1888 in
Wolverhampton. She was the first born child of Elizabeth Anne, born Burgess and Walter Shaw who would have six more children. Her father was a grocer and managed a tea-shop. Shaw joined the
London Missionary Society and in 1915 sailed for Africa where she was the first unmarried female missionary to be sent by the London Missionary Society to their Central African mission. She left the London Missionary Society in 1941, She died in 1973 in
Guildford when she was poor and no longer well known. ==Works==