“a few quite simple acts of Parliament”
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Marie Stopes
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes 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 h…
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science · British birth control campaigner and palaeobotanist (1880–1958) · botanist · paleontologist · curator · writer · suffragette · sexologist · botanical collector · scientific collector · feminist · author · also Marie Stopes, Mark Arundel, Erika Fay, Marie Carmichael, Stopes, Dr. Marie C. Stopes
Born 15 October 1880 · Died 2 October 1958 · Q442231
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2026· 2 entries
“so that legal subtleties based on misapprehension may not rob me of my victory”
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2022· 1 entry
The American Conservative: Marie Stopes International and Abortion, Inc.
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2020· 2 entries
BBC: Abortion provider changes name over Marie Stopes eugenics link
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The organisation changed its name to "MSI Reproductive Choices" with no other changes
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2018· 3 entries
standardmedia.co.ke: Marie Stopes ‘still open’
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National Catholic Register: Kenya Bans Marie Stopes From Performing, Advertising Abortions
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standardmedia.co.ke: Why Marie Stopes is now on the radar
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2017· 2 entries
The Irish Times: Closure of Marie Stopes Belfast clinic ends five years of hostility
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National Catholic Register: Whistle-Blower: Multiple Abuses Happened at Marie Stopes International Facility
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2015· 1 entry
The Daily Telegraph: Marie Stopes at 90: 'Women are facing financial penalties for having sex - it's Victorian'
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1978· 1 entry
It began its work overseas in New Delhi, India
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1958· 3 entries
Died 1958-10-02.
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Stopes died on 2 October 1958, aged 77, from breast cancer at her home in Dorking, Surrey.
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Bequeathed her clinics to the Eugenics Society
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1934· 2 entries
Reflected: "I am a Life Fellow and would have much more interest in the Eugenics Society if I had not been cold shouldered"
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An interview published in the Australian Women's Weekly disclosed her views on mixed-race marriages: she advised correspondents against them and believed that all half-castes should be sterilized at birth
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1933· 1 entry
As "Marie Stopes Her Work and Her Play"
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1930· 1 entry
Stopes produced two other plays for the London stage, "Don't Tell Timothy", a musical farce produced in 1925–26, and "Buckie's Bears", a children's Christmas pageant, allegedly dictated by her son, Henry Roe-Stopes, prod
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1926· 1 entry
Stopes had Vectia printed under the title A Banned Play and a Preface on Censorship
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1925· 1 entry
The Mothers' Clinic moved to Central London, where it remains as of 2015
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1924· 1 entry
Their son, Harry Stopes-Roe, was born in 1924.
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1923· 2 entries
Marie Stopes bought the Old Higher Lighthouse on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, as an escape from the difficult climate of London during her court case against Halliday Sutherland
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In 1923, Marie Stopes bought the Old Higher Lighthouse on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, as an escape from the difficult climate of London during her court case against Halliday Sutherland.
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1922· 2 entries
Halliday Sutherland wrote a book called Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine Against the Neo Malthusians
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Stopes wrote A New Gospel to All Peoples
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1920· 3 entries
In 1920, Sanger proposed opening a clinic in London; this encouraged Stopes to act more constructively, but her plan never materialised.
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Sanger proposed opening a clinic in London; this encouraged Stopes to act more constructively, but her plan never materialised
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Sent a copy of her book, Radiant Motherhood—arguably the most explicitly eugenic of her books—to the prime minister's secretary (and mistress), Frances Stevenson, and urged her to get David Lloyd George to read them
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1918· 2 entries
And 1920, Stopes advocated the compulsory sterilisation of those she considered unfit for parenthood
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Married Humphrey Verdon Roe, the financial backer of her most famous work, Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of the Sex Difficulties
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1917· 3 entries
Received the boost that helped her publish her book
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Before meeting Marie Stopes, Humphrey Roe offered to endow a birth control clinic attached to St Mary's Hospital in Manchester
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In 1917, before meeting Marie Stopes, Humphrey Roe offered to endow a birth control clinic attached to St Mary's Hospital in Manchester.
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1914· 1 entry
And the intensity of their relationship was reflected in a letter he wrote immediately prior to her second marriage to Humphrey Roe: "My dearest Una [Maude's pet name for Stopes], I have been bothering you with letters r
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1913· 2 entries
Stopes began to write a book about the way she thought marriage should work
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On 11 May 1913, Stopes filed for divorce on the grounds that the marriage had never been consummated.
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1911· 1 entry
Stopes married Canadian geneticist Reginald Ruggles Gates
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1910· 1 entry
The Geological Survey of Canada commissioned Stopes to determine the age of the Fern Ledges, a geological structure at Saint John, New Brunswick
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1909· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (1909).
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1907· 1 entry
During her tenure at Manchester University from 1904 to 1910, she arranged to research in Japan, allowing her to be with Fujii
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1904· 3 entries
While researching her PhD, and with whom she continued a romantic relationship in London
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Brought a possibility of proving Suess's theory
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One of the first women to be elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and was appointed a demonstrator in order to teach students
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1903· 1 entry
Published a study of the botany of the recently dried-up Ebbsfleet River
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1902· 1 entry
After only two years by attending both day and night schools at Birkbeck, University of London
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1900· 1 entry
At University College London as a scholarship student, where she studied botany and geology; she graduated with a first class B
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1880· 2 entries
Born 1880-10-15.
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Her father bought 28 Cintra Park in Upper Norwood
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