Marie Stopes Archive.
The Marie Stopes archive is part of and complements a collection of about 400 catalogued books and ephemera on the history of birth control in Britain. The collection was purchased by the Library with a grant from SSHRC in 1986.
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1880 and died in Surrey in 1958. Educated in Edinburgh, London and graduated Ph.D at Munich, she was the first woman appointed to the Science staff at the University of Manchester in 1904.
Jointly with H. V. Roe, she founded Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth Control in 1921. It was the first birth control clinic in the world.
Included as Section 7 are the research notes compiled by Stopes' biographer, Ruth Hall. These notes were presented to the Library by Dr. John Griffin, who had received them from Hail.
Call number: GA84
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