IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 382
Held at: University College London
Title: Stopes (Marie) Papers
Date(s): Created 1910-1917
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Stopes | Marie Charlotte Carmichael | 1880-1958 | palaeobotanist and pioneer of birth control
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Marie Stopes was the eldest daughter of the anthropologist Henry Stopes and Charlotte Stopes, the writer on sixteenth-century literature. Marie was educated in Edinburgh and London. She obtained a first class honours degree and was a gold medallist at University College London. She studied for her Ph.D. in Munich. Marie was the first woman to be appointed to the science staff of the University of Manchester in 1904. She went to Japan on a Scientific Mission in 1907, spent a year and a half at the Imperial University, Tokyo, and explored the country for fossils. She specialised in coal mines and fossil plants. She founded, jointly with H. V. Roe, the Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth-Control, 1921 (the first birth control clinic in the world). Marie was President of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress. She was also Fellow and sometime Lecturer in Palaeobotany at University College London and Lecturer in Palaeobotany at the University of Manchester. She published many books, mainly concerning botany and birth control.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript and typescript research papers of Marie Stopes, including journal articles on botany, and photographs.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Normal copyright restrictions apply.
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Not yet catalogued.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by the Geologists Association via Eric Robinson in November 1992.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: 1999