Stopes arrived in North America before Christmas to start her research and on 29 December she attended a dinner in St. Louis, Missouri, where she met Reginald Ruggles Gates.

Stopes showed her what she had written and sought her advice regarding a chapter on contraception for her book.

On 26 March 1918, the day Married Love was first published, Stopes was to her publisher's dismay visiting Humphrey Roe, who had just returned from World War I with a broken ankle after his plane had crashed.

Less than two months later they were married and Stopes had her first opportunity to practise what she preached in her book.

There was a conflict between Stopes and the doctors over the method of birth — she was not allowed to give birth on her knees — and, when the baby came, it was stillborn.

Stopes and her fellow family planning pioneers around the globe, like Dora Russell, played a major role in breaking down taboos about sex and increasing knowledge, pleasure and improved reproductive health.

The book attacked Stopes over her advocacy of the cervical cap, describing the cap as " the most harmful method contraception of which I have had experience " associating her birth control campaign with a writer convicted of obscenity for publishing on birth control 45 years earlier.

In 1924 the 43-year-old Marie Stopes gave birth to her only son, Harry.

Stopes knew many famous people of her age.

Stopes was strongly against the termination of a pregnancy once it had started: her clinics did not offer the possibility during her life.

* When Stopes discovered that a certain William Carpenter displayed her name on a birth control and abortion clinic he ran, she took steps to have him arrested and imprisoned.

* When it came to her notice that one of Avro Manhattan's woman friends had had an abortion, Stopes accused him of " murdering " the child.

Stopes, who was ever ready to promote her writings, sent a copy of her Love Songs for Young Lovers to Adolf Hitler with the following cover letter:

Stopes had a serious relationship mainly through correspondence with Japanese botanist Kenjiro Fujii, whom she met at the University of Munich in 1904 whilst researching her Ph. D.

After Harry married Mary, who was myopic, Stopes cut him out of her will, settling on the eugenics argument that prospective grandchildren might inherit the condition to justify her resentment.

Stopes died at her home in Dorking, Surrey, UK from breast cancer.

In 1923 Marie Stopes bought the Old Lighthouse on the Isle of Portland, Dorset as an escape from the difficult climate of London during her court case against H. G.

Blue plaque commemorating Marie Stopes at the University of Manchester

* Pictures of Marie Stopes and Thomas Hardy at her Portland, Dorset home

Shortly afterwards, the British palaeobotanists Frank Oliver and Dukinfield Henry Scott ( with the assistance of Oliver's student at the time Marie Stopes ) made the critical discovery that some of these fronds ( genus Lyginopteris ) were associated with seeds ( genus Lagenostoma ) that had identical and very distinctive glandular hairs, and concluded that both fronds and seeds belonged to the same plant.

** Marie Stopes opens the first birth control clinic in London, England.

Stopes was later sent to the North London Collegiate School, where she was a close friend of Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn.

This was a serious issue for Roe, so after their marriage he and Stopes planned to open a clinic for poor mothers in London.

In 1920 she proposed opening a clinic in London, which spurred Stopes to act more constructively, though Sanger's plan never materialized.

When Stopes had sufficiently recovered she returned to work in 1920, engaged in public speaking, responding to letters seeking advice on marriage, sex and birth control.

The success of Married Love had stimulated the need for a follow-up, which Stopes provided in the form of the already written Wise Parenthood: a Book for Married People, a manual on birth control, published later that year.

Stopes was now pregnant and a month overdue she entered a nursing home on 16 July 1919.

The modern organisation that bears Marie Stopes ' name was established a year later as an international non-governmental organisation ( NGO ) working on sexual and reproductive health.

The court case began on 21 February 1923 ; it was highly acrimonious ; and the jury found in favor of Stopes, answering the judge's four questions:

In an age when there was a piece of legislation on the books called The Mental Deficiency Act 1913, which described not only people it categorized as idiots and imbeciles, but also those who were " moral defectives " and " feeble-minded ", Stopes, mentioning " the inferior, the depraved, and the feeble-minded ", advocated " the sterilisation of those totally unfit for parenthood be made an immediate possibility, indeed made compulsory.

Asian Pacific Council on Contraception, Centro Latinamericano Salud y Mujer, European Society of Contraception and Reproductive Health, German Foundation for World Population, International Federation of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Marie Stopes International, Population Services International, The Population Council,

Embedded between the attacks on Bertrand Russell, Marie Stopes, Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf and a host of other Bloomsbury's and Georgians are classically refined objections to the prevailing philosophy of scepticism, mounted like pearls of wisdom in the basest of metal.

In 1917, before he'd met Marie Stopes, Humphrey Roe offered to endow a birth control clinic attached to St Mary's Hospital in Manchester.

Later that year Stopes had founded the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress, a support organization for the clinic.

The Marie Stopes International global partnership took over responsibility for the main clinic, and in 1978 it began its work overseas in New Delhi.

Humphrey Roe, the co-founder of the clinic, was demoted to " husband of Dr. Stopes ".

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His daughter Mary Eyre Wallis later married Harry Stopes-Roe, a son of Marie Stopes.

Some time around the start of the divorce proceedings, Stopes began to write a book about how she thought a marriage should work.

It was a moral victory for Stopes, as the press saw it and she appealed.

* Marie Roe, married name of Marie Stopes