Marie Stopes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marie Stopes

British birth control campaigner and paleontologist

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1880

Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 02-Oct-1958

Profession: writer, suffragette, curator, paleontologist, botanist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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.
Stopes edited the newsletter Birth Control News, which gave explicit practical advice.
Her sex manual Married Love (1918) was controversial and influential, and brought the subject of birth control into wide public discourse.
Stopes publicly opposed abortion, arguing that the prevention of conception was all that was needed, though her actions in private were at odds with her public pronouncements.