"earned the support of numerous donors, who would provide her with funding and support for future endeavors. She went on to found the first birth control league in America in 1921. The first permanent birth control clinic was established in Britain in 1921 by the birth control campaigner Marie Stopes, in collaboration with the Malthusian League. Stopes, who exchanged ideas with Sanger, wrote her book ""Married Love"" on birth control in 1918; - it was eventually published privately due to its controversial nature. The book was an instant success, requiring five editions in the first year and elevating Stopes to"
"Margery Spring Rice Margery Spring Rice (10 June 1887 – 21 April 1970) was a British social reformer. She was Secretary of the League of Nations Society and a founding member of the National Birth Control Association (later Family Planning Association). She authored the book ""Working-Class Wives: Their Health and Conditions"" in 1939. Spring Rice was born in London, the daughter of Clara Thornbury and Samuel Garrett (solicitor and president of the Law Society). She was niece to Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett. Her education lead to an M.A. in Moral Sciences from Cambridge. She married"
"Marie Stopes 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 opposed"
"to 1904 and ""The British Journal of Dermatology and Syphilis"" from January 1896 to December 1904. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 1897 and was a member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians from 1916 to 1918, being elected a Censor in 1920, and was serving as Second Censor at the time of his death in 1922. In 1898 he married Jessie Hermina Sawers, and with her had two sons and two daughters. During World War I he became a Member of the Advisory Board of the Army Medical Services"
"Second Impression 1945) The truth about poultry (1927) The truth about birth control: a guide for medical, legal & sociological students (1928) Sex and its mysteries (1929, revised edition 1948) Ten Ladies of Joy (1929) - profiles of Queen Elizabeth, La Reine Margot, Ninon de Lenclos, Nell Gwyn, Catherine the Great, Madame du Barry, Lady Halton, Madame de Staël, George Sand, and Lady Blessington. Poultry Trade Secrets (1929; 2nd ed., 1939; 3rd ed.: Secrets of successful poultry-keeping, 1948) Marriage in the Melting Pot (1930) Modern birth control methods : how to avoid pregnancy : an examination of the technique, indications"
"promotion of contraception. Edward Charles Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted (born Anacapri, Isola de Capri, 1898), better known by the pen name Edward Charles, was an English author, educator, social advocate and sexologist. His most famous writings are ""The Sexual Impulse"", ""Mens Gods"", ""Those Thoughtful People"", ""Sand & the Blue Moss"", ""Apple Pie Bed"", ""Indian Patchwork"" (with ""Mary Charles"", a pseudonym for his wife, Dorothy Mary Chance), ""Portrait of the Artist's Children"" and ""Idle Hands"". He was educated at Lancing College, St John's College, University of Oxford (where he took a double first) and Louvain University. During the early 1920s, he"
"of Tertiary syphilis - if Goodisson, a trained nurse, had married her second husband without knowing he had venereal disease this would explain why she became an anti-VD campaigner and propmoted pre-marital health checks and sex education for children. The association produced several booklets to further these aims, including ""What Parents Should Tell Their Children"" and ""Sex in Life: Young Women"". The RHA claimed to have published the booklets but they were really produced in London by the British Social Hygiene Council in the 1920s and were reissued by the RHA in the 1930s (without permission). They are: ""Sex in"
"Life: Young Men"", by Douglas White and Dr Otto May; ""Sex in Life: Young Women"", by Violet D Swaisland and Mary B Douie, and ""What Parents Should Tell Their Children"", by Mary Scharlieb and Kenneth Wills. The first birth control clinic in Sydney was founded by the association in 1933. Racial Hygiene Association of New South Wales The Racial Hygiene Association of New South Wales was an Australian-based association founded in 1926 by Lillie Goodisson and Ruby Rich of the Women's Reform League. The association was originally known as the Racial Improvement Society until 1928. It is now known as"
"a very wide variety of subjects, from outdoor pursuits and ornithology to eugenics and criticism of the women's movement. His work on outdoor pursuits were particularly concerned with his personal interests in angling and bird-watching in Britain and abroad. His contemporary political works included his 1909 objection to the women's movement, entitled ""Modern Woman and How to Manage Her"", and his 1929 work on eugenics, ""The Sterilization of the Unfit"". In addition to these works, however, he also wrote extensively on sex education and marriage during the 1920s, publishing ""A Text-Book of Sex Education for Parents and Teachers"" in 1919,"
"subsequently draw upon for his (posthumous) book of 1935. Continental critics see Suttie's work as reflecting a very British complacency about sexuality, and a downplaying of its problematics. Ian Suttie's matriarchy Ian Dishart Suttie Ian Dishart Suttie (1889-1935) was a Scottish psychiatrist perhaps best known for his writings on the taboo in families on expressing tenderness. His influential book ""The Origins of Love and Hate"" was posthumously published in 1935. The third son of a Glasgow doctor, Suttie took his medical degree there before joining the staff of the Glasgow Royal Asylum, where he married his wife (and future co-author)"
"from 1929 to 1934 was Director of the admiralty Experimental Station in Scotland. A Blue plaque commemorates Britain’s first birth control clinic, which Drysdale managed. It stands on 153 East Street, Walworth, Southwark in London. See He succeeded his father as editor of The Malthusian from 1907. He also wrote the following books and papers: In 1898 he married Bessie Ingman Edwards (1871-1950) a teacher at Stockwell College in South London. They had one daughter who died in 1914 aged 13. They adopted a son. Charles Vickery Drysdale Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale FRSE CB OBE (1874–1961) was an English electrical"
"and lower perinatal mortality. The report however resulted in a change in the medical establishment's approach to maternity, at the expense of domiciliary midwifery services. Peel was the author of Textbook of Gynaecology (1943); Lives of the Fellows of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969 (1976); and Biography of William Blair Bell (1986). In the 1980s, as sponsor of the Responsible Society, Peel accused the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Social Security of encouraging girls under 16 to have sexual intercourse: Peel was married three times: His first marriage was to Muriel Elaine Pellow in"
"the Royal Society of Medicine, the Society for Psychical Research, the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology, the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and the Psychological Society. In 1915 Murray met Marie Stopes at a BAAS meeting in Manchester, where both women presented papers. The two corresponded and attended the same medical meetings as one another. In 1918 Stopes published her book ""Married Love, A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties""; Murray wrote the preface. In July 1919 Murray was awarded an MD by the University of Durham; her thesis was ""Nervous Functional"
"Rathbone, Claire Rayner, Sheila Rowbotham, Maude Royden, Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear, Elaine Showalter, William Thomas Stead, Mary Stott, Louisa Twining and Henry Wilson. Organisation and campaign archives include the Fawcett Society, the Artists' Suffrage League, several sets of papers related to the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, the International Alliance of Women, Miss Great Britain, the London Society for Women's Suffrage, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, the National Women's Register, One Parent Families, Gingerbread, campaigns for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, especially the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, the International Council of Women, the Open"
"include the militant suffragette Lady Constance Lytton, feminist novelist Vera Brittain, Emily Pethick-Lawrence (former Treasurer of the Womens’ Social and Political Union), Rev Maude Royden (Women’s Suffrage Societies). Later supporters included eminent economist John Maynard Keynes. Three months later she and Roe opened the Mothers' Clinic at 61 Marlborough Road, Holloway, North London, on 17 March 1921. The clinic was run by midwives and supported by visiting doctors. It offered mothers birth control advice, taught them birth control methods and dispensed Stopes own ""Pro-Race"" (and later the ""Racial"") cervical caps. The free clinic was open to all married women for"
"thought it too controversial. When Binnie Dunlop, secretary of the Malthusian League, introduced her to Humphrey Verdon Roe—Stopes' future second husband—in 1917, she received the boost that helped her publish her book. Roe was a philanthropist interested in birth control; he paid Fifield & Co. to publish the work. The book was an instant success, requiring five editions in the first year, and elevated Stopes to national prominence. ""Married Love"" was published on 26 March 1918; that day, Stopes was visiting Humphrey Roe, who had just returned with a broken ankle from service during the First World War after his"
"for, and comparative efficacy of, birth control methods : with an appendix on the facilitation of conception (1933) The new art of love: a practical guide for the married and those about to marry (1934) The art of faking exhibition poultry : an examination of the faker's methods and processes; with some observations on their detection (1934) Facts and fallacies of practical birth control : including an examination of the ""natural method"" of contraception, of the Gräfenberg ring, and of sterilization (1935) A History of Prostitution from Antiquity to the Present Day (1936; revised edition 1968: Ladies of Vice: a"
"women's suffrage bill in England) and was author of the bill which became the Married Women's Property Act 1882 which gave wives absolute control over their property and earnings. He married Emmeline Goulden, better known as Emmeline Pankhurst, who was some 24 years younger than he was, in 1878. With her, he was instrumental in establishing the Independent Labour Party. Together they formed the Women's Franchise League in 1889. They were part of a political circle which included Keir Hardie, Annie Besant, William Morris and George Bernard Shaw. They were present at the Bloody Sunday riot in Trafalgar Square. Known"
"of the Order of the British Empire by King George V for his work on birth-rate and contraception in 1921, a rare accolade for a clergyman. He died in Sherborne on 20 May 1956. In 1895 he married Eleanor Jane Gordon. James Marchant Rev Sir James Marchant FRSE FLS FRAS KBE LLD (1867-1956) was a British eugenicist, social reformer and author. He was leader of the National Vigilance Association, concerned with social morality, and also the Director of the National Council of Public Morals. He epitomises the view of the priggish Victorian attitude to sex and morality. He was born"
"Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)”. In the early 20th century contraception was increasingly favoured and accepted (see History of Birth Control) although it was still subject to the discussion if sexual intercourse was meant solely for reproduction or if it was also part of the normal love life between spouses. In his book Sex and the Love Life, Fielding clearly takes a more liberal view and promotes contraceptive methods as they would increase marital happiness and harmony. Sex and the Love Life Sex and the Love Life by the American author William J. Fielding (1886-1974) is a non-fictional book published"
"Charles Robert Drysdale Charles Robert Drysdale (1829 – 1907) was an English engineer, physician and public health scientist, and the first President of The Malthusian League. He wrote ""The Life and Writings of Thomas R. Malthus"". He also published books on the topics of syphilis, the evils of prostitution and the dangers of tobacco smoking. Together with his wife he founded the Malthusian League and was its first President. He was the son of William Drysdale (1781 – 1847) and Lady Elizabeth Drysdale. The family were close friends of Charles Darwin. Although later remembered only as a doctor he was"
"born in Carmarthen, and was educated at Richmond Theological College and University College London. He married Katherine Hughes (née Barrett). In 1885, he founded the ""Methodist Times"", and in 1887 he was appointed Superintendent of the West London Methodist Mission. His wife Katherine organised and led the innovative Sisters of the People, social work volunteers attached to the West London Mission. In 1896, he was elected first president of the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, an organisation he helped create. In 1898, he was elected President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference for a year-long term. He died at his"
"was published in 1918 as ""The War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, Vol. 1"". The remainder of his work on this subject remains unpublished. His wartime diary is held at the Welcome Library. From 1919, he was Vice-Chancellor of University of Liverpool. He was the author of numerous monographs upon subjects relating to pathology in French, German, English and American medical journals, and of many papers read before medical societies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1898 and a Fellow of the Royal Society on 11 May 1905. He married Mary Stuart"
"Edward Charles Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted (born Anacapri, Isola de Capri, 1898), better known by the pen name Edward Charles, was an English author, educator, social advocate and sexologist. His most famous writings are ""The Sexual Impulse"", ""Mens Gods"", ""Those Thoughtful People"", ""Sand & the Blue Moss"", ""Apple Pie Bed"", ""Indian Patchwork"" (with ""Mary Charles"", a pseudonym for his wife, Dorothy Mary Chance), ""Portrait of the Artist's Children"" and ""Idle Hands"". He was educated at Lancing College, St John's College, University of Oxford (where he took a double first) and Louvain University. During the early 1920s, he was a Professor"
"Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld (1816–1889) was a member of an important family of radical activists in mid-nineteenth-century England who supported causes ranging from women’s suffrage to Italian unification. In 1844 she married<ref name=""doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/56461""></ref> future MP for Halifax James Stansfeld (1820–1898), the preeminent political advocate for the movement to repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts. She maintained a close friendship with Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini, who wrote to her frequently. 1500 of his letters to the family have been published in E.F. Richards’collection: ""Letters to an English Family."" In London on 28 January 1816, Caroline Ashurst was born to Elizabeth"
"happy society is a herculean task. After it has been accomplished, generations to come will see what the creature [us] will do next. We none of us know; and we should be thoroughly on our guard against all those who pretend that they do."" --Dora Russell, Author's Preface, ""The Right to Be Happy"", Harper & Brothers,(1927) In 1929, Russell organised the World League for Sexual Reform's highly successful Congress in London with the Australian-born birth control campaigner Norman Haire. Held over the course of five days in Wigmore Hall it was attended by leading intellectuals including George Bernard Shaw, Margaret"
"St Bartholomew's Hospital (1912–1936). Knighted in 1918, he was created a Baronet in 1923. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Horder, of Ashford in the County of Southampton on 23 January 1933. Horder served as president of the British Eugenics Society from 1935 to 1949 and as president of the Cremation Society of Great Britain from 1940 to his death in 1955. He was President of The Peckham Experiment in 1949. In 1902 Horder married Geraldine Rose Doggett (1872 - 1954), of Newnham Manor, Hertfordshire, whose maternal grandfather was James Smith Rose of Arley House, Bristol , who"
"the obstetrical division of the Royal Society of Medicine, and became President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1955. He was an honorary member of the American Association of Obstetricians, Gynaecologists and Abdominal Surgeons, the American Gynaecological Society, the South African Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and the Athens Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. He edited the 5th edition of Edward Lockyer's Gynaecology with Douglas MacLeod, and he was engaged with MacLeod on a revision of Bonney's Textbook of Gynaecological Surgery. He married twice, having two sons by each marriage. His first wife was Mabyn Gill, and his"
"Charles Vickery Drysdale Dr Charles Vickery Drysdale FRSE CB OBE (1874–1961) was an English electrical engineer and social reformer. He is remembered for opening the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1921 and co-founding the Family Planning Association in 1930. As an engineer he is remembered as the inventor of the Phase-shifting transformer. He was co-founder of the Institute of Physics and served as its Vice-President 1932–1936. He was first a Malthusian and then a Neo-Malthusian and served as President of the Malthusian League. He is seen as a founding father of Neo-Malthusianism. He was born the first son"
"the death of his father in 1907 he became Secretary of the Malthusian League and served as its President 1912 until 1952 (its demise). In 1914 he met Margaret Sanger who became a strong influence on his views. In both 1921 and 1925 he served as President of the Neo-Malthusian International Conference (London, 1921: New York, 1925). These views led to his involvement in Britain’s National Birth Control Association in 1930. In 1907, greatly influenced by his mother’s views he founded the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage. He also sat on the Men’s Committee for Justice for Women. In 1913"
"died. His ""Life and Letters"", edited by Ellice Hopkins, with an introduction by Sir WW Gull, appeared in 1878 but overlooked references to polygamy. Some philosophical writings were published posthumously, edited by his wife Margaret and sister-in-law Caroline Haddon.The polygamous aspects led to a campaign to discredit him, fronted especially by a group of London radicals, The Men and Women's Club founded in 1885 to discuss matters of gender and sexuality. Its success led to the discrediting too of his son, Charles Howard, whose bigamy was attributed to his father's theories. In 1887 Charles Howard and Mary Ellen Boole, the"
"thirty years. Norton's first book grew out of his PhD thesis on homosexuality in English Renaissance Literature. It was published as ""The Homosexual Literary Tradition"" (1972). Norton has published academic articles in ""Renascence"", ""American Imago"", ""Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature"", the ""London Journal"", etc. He has also contributed to ""Sex Doctors and Sex Crimes"", a contributor of entries to ""Who's Who in Gay & Lesbian History"" (Routledge, 2001) and a contributor to the ""Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"". His recent work includes ""Mother Clap's Molly House"" (1992; 2nd edition 2006), a history of the Molly House in England, and"
"1922. In 1925, he left the Liberals and joined the Labour Party. He then devoted his life to literature, editing the ""Cornhill Review"", while still serving on many public and private committees. Gorell was involved with many charities, particularly those that were educational or literary in nature. He was chairman of the Teachers' Registration Council (1922–1935), King's College Hospital (1929–1933), and of Dulwich College and Alleyn's School (1949–1959), and president of the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child (1928–1962), the Royal Society of Teachers (1929–1935), and of the Royal Literary Fund (1951–1962). Gorell was invested as an"