This weeks biography of a woman in history was submitted by Claire Healey Marie Stopes – Sex Advisor Extraordinaire Marie Stopes began her career as a scientist, studying botany and geology. She excelled in academia (despite the fact that she was initially not allowed to attend lectures, and after taking, and passing the same examinations as …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by @karenharte to be exhibited in April 2017 at Swindon Central Library, UK. One of Ireland’s modern heroines is Mary Robinson, the first female President of Ireland. Robinson advocated for the right to the legal availability of contraception, a removal of the requirement that married women resign from …
Marie Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist, academic, campaigner for women’s rights and pioneer in the field of birth control. Stopes was born in Edinburgh to an archaeologist father and scholarly, suffragist mother. Her parents had met through the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Stopes attended University College London (UCL) where she studied …