Marie Carmichael Stopes

Marie Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist, and academic who championed women's rights and pioneered birth control. Her contributions to palaeobotany and coal classification were significant, and she was the first female academic at the University of Manchester. With her second husband, she founded Britain's first birth control clinic. Her sex manual, Married Love, was controversial and influential, bringing the subject of birth control into public discourse. She advocated for preventing conception rather than abortion, arguing that it was sufficient.