Humphrey Verdon Roe

Standard Name: Roe, Humphrey Verdon

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Marie Stopes
MS 's second marriage was to Humphrey Verdon Roe , an early pilot and aeroplane manufacturer who was interested in birth control, and provided her with monetary support for her literary and educational work.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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, 1990.
Material Conditions of Writing Marie Stopes
Humphrey Verdon Roe helped fund MS 's work after their marriage in 1918.
politics Marie Stopes
MS and her husband, Humphrey Verdon Roe , founded the Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth Control at 61 Marlborough Road, Holloway, North London; it was the first birth control clinic in England.
Hall, Ruth, b. 1933. Marie Stopes: A Biography. Deutsch, 1977, http://University of Waterloo - Porter.
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Briant, Keith. Marie Stopes: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1962.
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