Marie Stopes
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author,
palaeobotanist and campaigner for
eugenics and
women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the
University of Manchester. With her second husband,
Humphrey Verdon Roe, Stopes founded the first
birth control clinic in Britain, which bore her name for
much of its 100 year history. Stopes edited the newsletter ''Birth Control News'', which gave explicit practical advice. Her
sex manual ''
Married Love'' (1918) was controversial and influential, and brought the subject of birth control into wide public discourse. Stopes publicly opposed abortion, arguing that the prevention of conception was all that was needed, though her actions in private were at odds with her public pronouncements.
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