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Wedding invitation of Humphrey Roe and Marie Carmichael Stopes.
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Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1880 and died there in 1958. Educated in Edinburgh, London and graduated with her Ph.D. from Munich, she was the first woman appointed to the science staff at the University of Manchester in 1904. Jointly with her husband H.V. Roe she founded the Mother's Clinic for Constructive Birth Control in 1921. It was the first birth control clinic in the world. She also published two books, "Married Love" and "Wise Parenthood: a Book for Married People."
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File consists of an invitation to the wedding of Humphrey Roe and Marie Carmichael Stopes. The wedding was held Wednesday June 19, 1918 at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.