"successful and the brothers became rich, but then in 1917 they had a falling out and Roe withdrew from the company. Before he met his wife, Roe had attempted to found a birth control clinic in Manchester, offering to finance St Mary's Hospital for the purpose. He had observed the effects of mothers in Manchester who had given birth to too many children and decided he could do something. The hospital declined the offer. In November 1917 Dr Binnie Dunlop, who was also interested in birth control, introduced Roe to Marie Stopes, who had just written a book called ""Married"
"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"
"the first women to speak out in somewhat offensive ways about her beliefs with a ""Forward, Charge!"" approach. She did this through attacks in her articles and letters that kept her in the public's eye and added to the debates around many controversial topics surrounding women's rights. She is famous for her lectures and her work with the Abortion Law Reform Association. As a women's rights activist, Browne was able to keep questions of women's rights to their body and sexuality in the public eye long enough to get other people interested enough to keep the cause going even after"
"History of Europe'. John Beddoe John Beddoe (21 September 1826 – 19 July 1911) was one of the most prominent English ethnologists in Victorian Britain. Beddoe was born in Bewdley, Worcestershire, and educated at University College, London (BA (London)) and Edinburgh University (M.D. 1853). He served in the Crimean War and was a physician at Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1862 to 1873. He and his wife were both friends with Mary Carpenter and they hosted what was said to be the first women's suffrage meeting in 1868. Invitees included a young Annie Leigh Browne. Beddoe retired from practice in Bristol"
"international campaigner...Phoebe holds an important place in the history of ""bottom-up"" labour activism, and is a symbol of female emancipation during a century of women's struggle... Phoebe demonstrated that it was possible for a committed individual of humble origins to make a significant impact in diverse areas of politics. The fact that she achieved this as a woman, and on occasions as the first female activist, makes her achievements all the more remarkable"". Phoebe Cusden Phoebe Cusden (1887–1981) was a socialist, trade unionist, educator, peace campaigner and politician from the English town of Reading. She was continuously active between the"
"encourage British farmers to change over towards organic methods, by the Conservative Government (under Margaret Thatcher). She wrote, with Beryl Hearnden, several detective novels under the pseudonym Hearnden Balfour: Lady Eve Balfour Lady Evelyn Barbara Balfour, (16 July 1898 – 16 January 1990) was a British farmer, educator, organic farming pioneer, and a founding figure in the organic movement. She was one of the first women to study agriculture at an English university, graduating from the institution now known as the University of Reading. Balfour, one of the six children of Gerald, 2nd Earl of Balfour, and the niece of"
"also known as Jane Roe, and her right to have an abortion in the case ""Roe v Wade"". Although Weddington is the attorney that is well known for this case, Coffee is the one that started it all by finding Norma McCorvey. This is key as without a pregnant woman they could not have challenged the anti-abortion laws in the United States. Women gaining the right to have an abortion during their first trimester of their pregnancy was a monumental ruling for many reasons. One is that it gives women the ability to have a safe abortion. Prior to this"
"1921 at 61, Marlborough Road, Holloway, North London. Stopes became the figurehead and Roe acted as the hardworking secretary. Together they worked tirelessly to keep the clinic running and expand their operations to other cities in Britain. Their relationship failed in the mid-1930s. During World War II at the age of 61, Roe joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and for a third time did his duty for his country. In 1949 he developed kidney trouble and died on 27 July aged 71. Humphrey Verdon Roe Humphrey Verdon Roe (18 April 1878 – 27 July 1949) was a British"
"Charles Robert Drysdale. Their son was Charles Vickery Drysdale FRSE (1874-1961). Alice Vickery Alice Vickery (also known as A. Vickery Drysdale and A. Drysdale Vickery; 1844 – 12 January 1929) was an English physician, campaigner for women's rights, and the first British woman to qualify as a chemist and pharmacist. She and her life partner, Charles Robert Drysdale, also a physician, actively supported a number of causes, including free love, birth control, and destigmatisation of illegitimacy. Vickery was born in Devon in 1844 to a piano maker and organ builder. By 1861, she had moved to South London. Vickery began"
"John Beddoe John Beddoe (21 September 1826 – 19 July 1911) was one of the most prominent English ethnologists in Victorian Britain. Beddoe was born in Bewdley, Worcestershire, and educated at University College, London (BA (London)) and Edinburgh University (M.D. 1853). He served in the Crimean War and was a physician at Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1862 to 1873. He and his wife were both friends with Mary Carpenter and they hosted what was said to be the first women's suffrage meeting in 1868. Invitees included a young Annie Leigh Browne. Beddoe retired from practice in Bristol in 1891. He"
"Deirdre Beddoe Deirdre Beddoe (born 1942) is a historian of women in modern Britain, with particular focus on Wales. She is Emeritus Professor of Women's History at the University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd. She was involved in the Women's Liberation Movement as a member of Cardiff Women's Action Group in the 1970s. Beddoe has written about the history of women in modern Britain and Wales. She has researched women's lives during the First and Second World Wars, women's suffrage, and women's writing in twentieth-century Britain. She was a founder member of Women's Archive of Wales, established in 1997 to raise the"
"Helena Rosa Wright Helena Rosa Wright (17 September 1887 – 21 March 1982) was an English pioneer and influential figure in birth control and family planning both in Britain and internationally. With her husband she undertook missionary work in China for five years. She qualified as a medical doctor, later specialising in contraception medicine. Helena became renowned as an educator and also as a campaigner for government funded family planning services and became associated with international organisations promoting population control programmes. She was the author of several books and training guides on birth control, sex education and sex therapy. Helena's"
"a speaking tour around England, providing information about her beliefs on the need for accessibility of information about birth control for women, women’s health problems, problems related to puberty and sex education and high maternal morbidity rates among other topics. These talks urged women to take matters of their sexuality and their health into their own hands. She became increasingly interested in her view of the woman’s right to terminate their pregnancies, and in 1929 she brought forward her lecture ""The Right to Abortion"" in front of the World Sexual Reform Congress in London. In 1931 Browne began to develop"
"job and her husband. At the time of Cohen's first job as a milliner, there was a strong movement by the Leeds campaign for better working conditions for women. This affected Cohen and her view of the treatment of women in the working world. Also, Cohen's husband Henry, was very supportive of her passion to fight for women's rights. Cohen's family and job experience all contributed to her desire to step up and take action as a suffragist. Cohen made many physical actions of protest against the British government. Cohen stood up for what she believed in by taking action"
"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"
"Alice Vickery Alice Vickery (also known as A. Vickery Drysdale and A. Drysdale Vickery; 1844 – 12 January 1929) was an English physician, campaigner for women's rights, and the first British woman to qualify as a chemist and pharmacist. She and her life partner, Charles Robert Drysdale, also a physician, actively supported a number of causes, including free love, birth control, and destigmatisation of illegitimacy. Vickery was born in Devon in 1844 to a piano maker and organ builder. By 1861, she had moved to South London. Vickery began her medical career at the Ladies' Medical College in 1869. There"
"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"
"Scotland and Ireland to compare the difference within the feminist movements, and reported that the movement was little known in Germany and France in comparison to Great Britain. In 1864, she took part in the founding of ""Svenska Röda Korset"" (Swedish Red Cross) with Adlersparre, General Major Rudebeck, and Dr. Lemchen. In 1857 she married a widower, Swedish lawyer, statesman and professor, (1817–1905). Olivecrona was professor of law at Uppsala University (1852–1867) and Rector of Uppsala University (1861–1862). He was Supreme Court Justice (1868–1889) and became a member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague from 1902. Roos"
"by their father, New Bells Farm in Haughley Green, Suffolk. In 1939, she launched the Haughley Experiment, the first long-term, side-by-side scientific comparison of organic and chemical-based farming. She later became Chairmab of Haughley Parish Council for many years and organised ARP precautions within the village. She campaigned vigorously against the payment of tithes to the church and was in opposition to the Vicar of Haughley the Rev W G White. In 1943, leading London publishing house Faber & Faber published Balfour's book, ""The Living Soil"". Reprinted numerous times, it became a founding text of the emerging organic food and"
"for the treatment of amoebic diseases including amoebic dysentery. Her best known work was a comprehensive study of ""Plasmodium"", the malaria parasite, and investigation of various chemotherapies for the disease. Later she studied drug resistance in this parasite, research that proved valuable to the British military in World War II. She discovered the potential for cross-resistance in these parasites during that same period. Bishop also discovered the protozoan ""Pseudotrichomonas keilini"" and worked with ""Aedes aegypti"", a malaria vector, as part of her research on the disease. Elected to the Royal Society in 1959, Bishop was the founder of the British"
"2 October 1958, aged 77, from breast cancer at her home in Dorking, Surrey. Her will left her clinic to the Eugenics Society; most of her estate went to the Royal Society of Literature. Her son Harry received her copy of the ""Greater Oxford Dictionary"" and other small items. An English Heritage blue plaque commemorates Stopes at 28 Cintra Park, Upper Norwood, where she lived from 1880 to 1892. 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"
"hold her own campaigns. Many agree that no man of her era, including her husband, exceeded her in popularity or spiritual results. Her first written article, the pamphlet ""Female Teaching"" was published in December 1859. Catherine Booth was eloquent and compelling in speech, articulate and devastatingly logical in writing, she had for over twenty years defended the right of women to preach the gospel on the same terms as men. At first, Catherine and her husband had shared a ministry as traveling evangelists, but then she came into great demand as a preacher in her own right, especially among the"
"now widely used term, 'foeticide', when she began strongly condemning the snowballing practice of turning amniocentesis from a medical tool into a weapon of gender genocide in the mid-1980s. A decade later when she had moved to the Times of India, she was commissioned by the Population Council to co-author the document on the country's new Reproductive health policy. Combining her extensive and insightful understanding with her communication skills she demystified the policy, making it accessible to its governmental, quasi-official and NGO 'customers'. As a professional, she brings to the table an ability to see the big picture, connect the"
"Loudon had a supportive team at the Dean Terrace clinic, and these were exciting times for family planning, the many battles notwithstanding. The clinic service expanded to offer well-woman screening, vasectomy, sexual problems clinics and place of work screening in local factories. She was proud of establishing the Lothian Abortion Referral Service, which streamlined the management of women seeking abortion, reducing unnecessary and distressing delays. She pursued academic medical interests, and held a lectureship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Edinburgh. She was involved in research on contraception, in particular, steroid hormones, and her research"
"she founded in the UK in September 2009, and which is now active in more than 50 countries. On International Women's Day, 8 March 2011, she was named as one of the Guardian newspaper's ""Top 100 Women"", in a list which included Aung San Suu Kyi, Gareth Pierce, Doris Lessing, Arundhati Roy and Oprah Winfrey. Her father is the pioneering TV producer Peter Armstrong. Armstrong read zoology at University College, London and her thesis was ""Is the human species suicidal?"" Armstrong's first documentary, ""McLibel"" (1997, 2005), is an account of the McDonald's libel trial, the longest-running court action in English"
"for working-class women’s rights. In 1913 Esther Roper and Eva Gore-Booth moved to London for the sake of Eva's health. In 1916, along with transwoman Irene Clyde, they founded Urania, a privately circulated journal which expressed their pioneering views on gender and sexuality. Published six times a year it contained clippings of articles from national and international press as well as original pieces. They were prominent pacifists during the First World War, working in the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace. Among other things they helped support the wives and children of imprisoned conscientious objector. After the war they"
"in women's right to terminate their pregnancies, she would still be considered a ""heretic"" were she to say so at this time. Despite this, in 1929 she brought forward her lecture ""The Right to Abortion"" in front of the World Sexual Reform Congress in London. In the years leading up to the presentation of this paper, Browne worked to gather information on maternal mortality, and found that rates were higher than ever before in 1929, and became the secretary of the Chelsea Labour Party in hopes of bringing ideas of birth control and abortion to light in political platform in"
"a general practitioner in Sheffield, setting up a family planning clinic, known as the 408 Clinic, in the city's east end. The clinic attracted controversy as it provided contraception to unmarried women. After moving to Glasgow she worked in the Family Planning Association advising women, particularly those from deprived areas, on sexual health, contraception and abortion. On a visit to Hong Kong she witnessed the effectiveness of the contraceptive medroxyprogesterone acetate, and on her return to Glasgow she reviewed the benefits and contraindications of the drug, and began offering it in her clinics. It was likely that it was being"
"activist for the Equal Rights Amendment, (ERA). Pro-choice on abortion and a leader in the women's movement, she gained fame as one of the most candid first ladies in history, commenting on every hot button issue of the time, including feminism, equal pay, the ERA, sex, drugs, abortion, civil rights, and gun control. Her liberal positions and her outspoken personality garnered her high approval ratings throughout her husband's term in office despite opposition from the conservative wing of the GOP who objected to her liberal stances and even a few members of Ford's cabinet like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld"
"Hall, London. She was also involved with the Browne sisters in the running of the Women's Local Government Society, succeeding Annie as honorary treasurer from 1892 to 1900, after which Mary Browne (who married scientist Sir Norman Lockyer in 1903) retained the post until 1918. Active in Liberal Party circles, she helped found the Union of Practical Suffragists, co-authoring one of its pamphlets (c. 1899). Mary Stewart Kilgour Mary Stewart Kilgour (24 September 1851 – 1955) was a suffragist, educationalist, writer and campaigner for women's rights. Kilgour was one of 13 children born to a Scottish physician, Dr John Stewart"
"September 28, 1953 from cerebral thrombosis, in Milford on Sea, Hampshire. Eleanor Mary Reid Eleanor Mary Reid (born Eleanor Mary Wynne Edwards) (1860–1953) was a British palaeobotanist. Throughout her life she worked closely with her husband, Clement Reid, a trained botanist and geologist, and later worked alongside Marjorie Chandler. Eleanor Mary Wynne Edwards was born on November 13, 1860 in Denbigh to parents John and Maria Wynne Edwards. She attended the Westfield College in London, England and earned her BSc in 1892. Reid wasn't originally educated in paleontology or botany, she taught physics and maths at the prestigious Cheltenham Ladies"
"and leatherback turtles in Suriname. Rae was awarded the Ursula Lauris citation for her leadership achievements. Eleanor Rae Eleanor Rae (born 1934) is an American author and proponent of eco-feminism. Rae was born in Meriden, Connecticut). Her parents named here after First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt with the thought that her family would survive the Great Depression. Eleanor Rae is married to Giles Rae and they together have two daughters, a son, and eight grand children. Rae first earned a Mathematics degree from the College of New Rochelle. She received a Master's degree from Southern Connecticut State University in early childhood"
"Welsh Women of World War One. She has also been historical advisor for five films. Deirdre Beddoe Deirdre Beddoe (born 1942) is a historian of women in modern Britain, with particular focus on Wales. She is Emeritus Professor of Women's History at the University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd. She was involved in the Women's Liberation Movement as a member of Cardiff Women's Action Group in the 1970s. Beddoe has written about the history of women in modern Britain and Wales. She has researched women's lives during the First and Second World Wars, women's suffrage, and women's writing in twentieth-century Britain. She"