Rosie Russell of St Johns School Surrey won our London Heat and she spoke about her local hero: Marie Stopes.

 

 

Marie Carmichael Stopes, D.Sc., Ph.D. (15 October 1880 - 2 October 1958) was a Scottish author, palaeobotanist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of family planning. Stopes edited the journal Birth Control News which gave anatomically explicit advice, and in addition to her enthusiasm for protests at places of worship this provoked protest from both the Church of England and the Catholic Church. Her sex manual Married Love, which was written, she claimed, while she was still a virgin, was controversial and influential.