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The early years of Marie’s second marriage to Humphrey Verdon Roe, are described. The birth of her son Harry and her relationship with him are analysed. The archives show she received numerous requests for birth control advice resulting from the publication of Married Love. Marie met American birth controller Margaret Sanger. Marie and Humphrey, who was a birth control advocate before meeting Marie, then organised an influential public meeting in the Queens Hall and successfully approached public figures including suffragette Lady Constance Lytton. The couple founded the co-ordinating organisation Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress and started publication of The Birth Control News of which Marie was editor.
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- 1.
Jenkins, Lyndsey, Lady Lytton: Aristocrat. Suffragette. Martyr. (London, 2015) p. 220.
- 2.
Hall, Ruth , Marie Stopes. (London, 1976) pp. 137–154. Rose, June, Marie Stopes. (London, 1992) pp. 105–129.
- 3.
Stopes-Roe, Harry, Marie Stopes. (London, 1974) pp. 39–40.
- 4.
Ibid., p. 41.
- 5.
Ibid., p. 45.
- 6.
Movingly this photograph of their baby, dressed in white baby clothes, is kept in the Stopes Papers Archive. A man’s arm can just be seen in this picture. British Library Stopes Papers. Add MSS 58770.
- 7.
Hall, Ruth , Marie Stopes. pp. 249–250.
- 8.
Mary Stopes Roe to Clare Debenham, November 2014.
- 9.
Sanger , Margaret, My Fight for Birth Control. (London, 1932) p. 102.
- 10.
Hall, Ruth , Marie Stopes. p. 117.
- 11.
Rose , June, Marie Stopes. pp. 147–149.
- 12.
Ibid., p. 147.
- 13.
Brittain, Vera , Testament of Youth. (London, 1933) quoted in Marie Stopes, Eugenics and the English Birth Control Movement. (ed. Robert Peel). John Peel, Chapter I, ‘The Evolution of Marie Stopes’, p. 14.
- 14.
Jenkins, Lyndsey, Lady Lytton. p. 220.
- 15.
Ibid.
- 16.
British Library, Stopes Papers, Add MSS 58493.
- 17.
Ibid.
- 18.
Ibid.
- 19.
Rose , June, Marie Stopes. p. 159.
- 20.
BBC Caversham Park Archives. File 1 Marie Stopes, 1931–1962.
- 21.
Eaton, Peter and Warnwick, Marilyn, Marie Stopes. A Preliminary Check List. (London, 1977).
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Debenham, C. (2018). Birth Control: The Start of Marie Stopes’ Campaign. In: Marie Stopes’ Sexual Revolution and the Birth Control Movement. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71664-0_5
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