Front matter
Reading edition
Dr. Marie Stopes
as thousands have seen her on the lecture platform.
THE AUTHORIZED LIFE OF MARIE C. STOPES
BY AYLMER MAUDE AUTHOR OF Life of Tolstoy.
Editor of the “Maude Tolstoy” in the World’s Classics Series.
LONDON: WILLIAMS & NORGATE, LTD. 14, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.2 1924
MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The author expresses his grateful thanks to the following firms who have kindly given permission for the use of some of the photographs illustrating this book:—Messrs. Swaine, Elliott & Fry and Neame.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. The Theme.
II. Glimpses of Childhood.
III. The Student.
IV. Academic Life.
V. World Travel.
VI. Marriage.
VII. “Married Love” and its Developments.
VIII. Opponents.
IX. Inner Life.
APP. A. List of Books and Pamphlets by Dr. Marie Stopes.
APP. B. List of Dr. Stopes’s Scientific Memoirs, etc., Embodying her New Discoveries.
APP. C. The tenets of the C.B.C.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Dr. Marie Stopes as thousands have seen her on the lecture platform.
2. The author at Givons Grove with Mrs. Zangwill on his left, Dr. Marie Stopes kneeling, and her mother on his right.
3. Marie Stopes as a student, with a group of professors, in the mountains. Prof. Goebel on her left.
4. The first portrait in her robes as Doctor of Science of London.
5. Humphrey Verdon Roe.
6. Dr. Marie Stopes at the time of her marriage to Mr. H. V. Roe. 1918.
7. An Industrial Conference at Givons Grove.
8. Dr. Stopes, seated, with her husband’s father and mother.
9. Mr. H. V. Roe and “Wuffles” as a puppy.
10. Members of the Birth Rate Commission. The Bishop of Birmingham in the centre. Dr. Stopes on his left.
11. Dr. Marie Stopes and her Baby, Harry Verdon Stopes-Roe, aged 3 months.
12. Dr. Marie Stopes.
13. Dr. Marie Stopes.
14. Inner home life: Dr. Stopes as gardener, and her husband with the car.