British birth control campaigner and paleontologist (1880-1958).
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) w
Abbreviations: Stopes
Occupations: writer, suffragette, sexologist, scientific collector, curator, paleontologist, botanist, botanical collector, biologist
Citizenships: United Kingdom
Languages: English
Dates: 1880-10-15T00:00:00Z – 1958-10-02T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Edinburgh
Direct attributions: 0 plants, 2 fungi
Authorship mentions: 1 plant, 2 fungi