The book is dedicated to her elder sister, Letitia Fairfield
. Its title comes from Blake
's Proverbs of Hell in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, quoted on the title page: The cistern...
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1925: Christine Murrell and Letitia Fairfield,...
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1925
Christine Murrell
and Letitia Fairfield
, in association with the Medical Women's Federation
, set out to explode some damaging myths by launching a survey on menstrual experience among girls.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1926: The League of National Life was co-founded...
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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14 January 1933: The Lancet published An Investigation of...
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14 January 1933
The Lancet published An Investigation of Menopause in One Thousand Women, produced by the Medical Women's Federation
(for which Christine Murrell
and Letitia Fairfield
had already researched the experience of menstruation).
Balaam, Marie-Clare, and Barbara Crowther. “Menopause Exposed: Women Surveying Women”. Women’s History Magazine, Vol.