Other amazing women:
Dr. Grace Feder Thompson,
Nellie Bly,
Lydia Pinkham
Historical
remedies for menstrual period pain and
problems. See more remedies here.
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(A book first published in 1918)
Married Love
by Marie Carmichael Stopes, D.Sc., London;
Ph.D., Munich
Fellow of University College London;
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
and of the Linnean and Geological
Societies, London. First published in 1918
and,
by 1931, translated into 10 languages.
This first American edition was published
in 1931 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
(The Knickerbocker Press)
The amazing Scotswoman Dr. Marie Stopes,
founder of the first
birth control clinic in the British Empire
(The Mothers' Clinic in London, still
running), in 1921, wrote this
ground-breaking book that devoted a
chapter to the cyclic
nature of women's sexual desire, a first,
part of which appears below.
SarahAnne
Hazlewood generously donated this book
to the museum.
Below: Dr.
Stopes is in the process of
explaining that some women feel
only one of the peaks of desire
each moon month, or only
experience the two peaks when they
are "particularly well, or only
when they read exciting novels
[!], . . . " and then the line
below starts. Read more
about novels at right.
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Many books of
popular medicine of the 19th
century regarded novels and
dancing, among other things, as
immoral and causing masturbation
and illicit sex. They were
right! Read, for
example, Kellogg's Plain Facts
for Old and Young, 1892.
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First, third Stopes page,
Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter
appealing for patients, Nellie Bly, Lydia Pinkham,
See also the patent
medicine Cardui,
Dr. Grace Feder Thompson's letter
appealing for patients, Dr. Pierce's
medicines, and Orange
Blossom medicine.
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Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or
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