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Marie Stopes (October 15 1880 - October 2 1958) was a Scottish author, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of family planning. Stopes edited the journal Birth Control News which gave anatomically explicit advice, and in addition to her enthusiasm for protests at places of worship this provoked protest from both the Church of England and the Catholic Church. Her sex manual Married Love, which was written while she was still a virgin, was controversial and influential.
In 1911 she married Reginald Ruggles Gates; this marriage was unconsummated and was annulled in 1914. In 1918 she married Humphrey Verdon Roe, brother of Alliot Verdon Roe.
Stopes opened the UK's first family planning clinic, the Mothers' Clinic at 61, Marlborough Road, Holloway, North London on March 17, 1921. The clinic offered a free service to married women and also gathered scientific data about contraception. The opening of the clinic created one of the greatest social impacts of the 20th century and marked the start of a new era in which couples, for the first time, could reliably take control over their fertility.
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"You can take no credit for beauty at 16; if you are beautiful at 60, it will be your soul's own doing" - Marie Stopes, via @Canadian_Living
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Marie Stopes - Biography of the feminist crusader who established Britain's first birth control clinic. Includes excerpts from her letters.
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