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Marie’s intellectual development was influenced by her father and mother. Henry Stopes was a brewer by profession, but the evidence shows his passion was for archaeology. His research expeditions captured Marie’s interest and he encouraged her intellectual development. Marie had a warm relationship with her father, but a much more difficult relationship with Charlotte, her mother. The home schooling of her two daughter was not a success. Charlotte was a noted scholar and published extensively on Shakespeare. A feminist, Charlotte was involved in the suffrage struggle and wrote British Freewomen concerning the role of noblewomen in history. Marie’s relationship with her younger sister Winnie, is often overlooked, but their deteriorating emotional bond sheds light on Marie’s personality.
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Notes
- 1.
British Library, Stopes Papers, Add MSS 58463.
- 2.
Maude , Aylmer, Authorised Life of Marie C. Stopes. (London, 1924) p. 10.
- 3.
British Library, Stopes Papers, Add MSS 58463.
- 4.
Hall, Ruth , Marie Stopes. p. 20.
- 5.
Ibid., p. 21.
- 6.
Ibid., p. 21.
- 7.
Maude , Aylmer, Marie Stopes. (London, 1924) p. 11.
- 8.
Stopes, Charlotte, The Bacon – Shakspere Question Answered. (London, 1889) p. 2.
- 9.
Maude , Aylmer, Marie Stopes. (London, 1924) p. 11.
- 10.
Stopes, Charlotte, British Freewomen. (1894 reprinted India 2013) p. 20.
- 11.
Ibid., p. 173.
- 12.
Mayhall, Laura, The Militant Suffrage Movement. (Oxford, 2005).
- 13.
Rose, June , Marie Stopes and the Sexual Revolution. (London, 1992) p. 40.
- 14.
British Library, Stopes Papers, Add MSS 58463.
- 15.
Green , Stephanie, The Private Lives of Charlotte and Marie Stopes. (London, 2013) p. 217.
- 16.
Ibid., p. 218.
- 17.
Dr James Sumner to Clare Debenham, University of Manchester, 2015.
- 18.
Wenban-Smith, F. and Pope, M. (eds) in Great Prehistorians:150 Years of Paleolithic Research. Journal of Lithic Studies, vol. 30. Special volume on Lithics, pp. 65–84.
- 19.
British Library, Stopes Papers, Add MSS 58463, File.10.
- 20.
Rose , June, Marie Stopes. p. 14.
- 21.
Maude , Aylmer, Marie Stopes. (London, 1924) p. 21.
- 22.
BBC Written Archives, Caversham Park, Marie Stopes, File 1 1931–1962.
- 23.
Rose , June, Marie Stopes. pp. 26–27.
- 24.
Green, Stephanie , Private Lives. p. 53.
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Rose, June , Marie Stopes. p. 40. British Library, Stopes Papers, Add MSS 58455 – 58456.
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British Library, Stopes Papers, Add MSS 58455.
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Hall, Ruth , Marie Stopes. p. 63.
- 28.
Ibid., p. 91.
- 29.
Rose, June , Marie Stopes. p. 96.
- 30.
Ibid., p. 126.
- 31.
Hall, Ruth , Marie Stopes. p. 212.
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British Library, Stopes Papers, Add MSS 58455.
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Debenham, C. (2018). Family Values. In: Marie Stopes’ Sexual Revolution and the Birth Control Movement. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71664-0_2
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