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birth-control campaigner. With her husband H V Roe (1878-1949), an aircraft
manufacturer, she founded Britain's first birth-control clinic in London
1921. She wrote plays and verse as well as the best-selling manual Married
Love 1918, in which she urged women to enjoy sexual intercourse within their
marriage, a revolutionary view for the time. Stopes was born in Edinburgh and studied botany at University College, London, and in Germany at Munich. She taught at the University of Manchester 1905-11, as the first woman to be appointed to the science staff there. Her field was palaeobotanical research into fossil plants and primitive cycads. Her other works include Wise Parenthood 1918 and Radiant Motherhood 1921. The Well Woman Centre in Marie Stopes House, London, commemorates her work. |