Charlotte Stopes

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CS was a keen researcher who wrote extensive criticism on Shakespeare . In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she published prolifically to support her family. An active feminist, she spoke and wrote widely and effectively on women's rights. In addition to her nine monographs, she published widely in periodicals and pamphlets.
Black-and-white photo of Charlotte Stopes, 1953. Looking off-camera, she is against a tree fabric background and has her arms crossed over what could be a table top. She wears a hat with a feather in it.

Milestones

5 February 1840

Charlotte Carmichael (later CS ) was born in Edinburgh, the eldest of five children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

1861

Charlotte Carmichael (later CS ) published Alice Errol and Other Tales in the Chambers's Library for Young People: Second Series.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

December 1888

CS 's critical sally later known as The Bacon -Shakspere Question Answered first appeared under the briefer and less familiar title of The Bacon-Shakspere Question.
Stopes, Charlotte. The Bacon-Shakspere Question. T. G. Johnson.
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6 February 1929

CS died, aged nearly ninety, at a nursing home in the aptly named Shakespeare Road, Worthing, Sussex, from bronchitis and cerebral thrombosis.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Her pseudonym is the Latin name of the wild or the yellow mignonette.

Early Life

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