Month: December 2022
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Merry Christmas!
As another year draws to a close, I would like to thank you for your interest in Dr. Halliday Sutherland’s story. It has been a good year: 19 articles posted, Exterminating Poverty has been well received and I was honoured to be James Delingpole’s guest on his Delingpod podcast in July. During the year, I…
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Six Books About Stopes v. Sutherland (1923)
This article outlines six books that touch on the Stopes v. Sutherland libel trial (1923-24). Marie Stopes Her Work and Her Play (1933) Aylmer Maude 1933 John Bale, Sons & Danielsson Limited, London. 298 pages, index, eight pictures. Marie Stopes Her Work and Her Play was the second edition of The Authorized Life of Marie…
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A put up job?
There were (and are) those who believe that Dr. Sutherland’s attack on Marie Stopes’ work was instigated and financed by the Catholic Church. In other words, that it was a put up job. For instance, in her introduction to The Trial of Marie Stopes, Muriel Box wrote: Since the establishment of the first birth control…