Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958
To write the life of a friend who is still very much alive presents difficulties, but they are compensated for in the present case by the fact that I am able to consult the subject of my work and her family, and draw much of my material direct from the fountain head. I had a s...
To write the life of a friend who is still very much alive presents difficulties, but they are compensated for in the present case by the fact that I am able to consult the subj...
2. CHAPTER II.Marie Carmichael Stopes, the first child of Henry Stopes and Charlotte Carmichael, his wife, was born in Edinburgh, the town of her mother’s birth and upbringing, but her father...
3. CHAPTER III.Whether Marie Stopes should go to a Women’s College or to University College, London, was being discussed by her parents, the headmistress and teachers. The girl however settled...
4. CHAPTER IV.In other Universities women were beginning to obtain posts hitherto given only to men, but Manchester had not before had a woman on the science staff, though a lecturer in Engli...
5. CHAPTER V.The taste Dr. Stopes had inherited for travel found practical justification in many journeys in connection with her scientific research work. In addition to these expeditions, w...
6. CHAPTER VI.About eighteen months after having been freed from the legal matrimonial entanglement which had proved itself no true marriage, Dr. Marie Stopes and her real husband met at a lu...
7. CHAPTER VII.The book, _Married Love_, was the outcome of Dr. Stopes’s scientific investigation of her own case, in the course of which, as already mentioned, she had read in the British Mus...
8. CHAPTER VIII.No one of so dynamic a temperament could pass through life without making some enemies and rousing opposition, but until recent years the number of Dr. Stopes’s opponents or ene...
9. CHAPTER IX.In any life that is worth writing at all the outward events have but a superficial interest in comparison with the landmarks in the development of consciousness and the soul. Th...