Author: FRYER, PETER
Title: The birth controllers
Description: London: Secker & Warburg, 1965 (1st ed.); 8vo (22.3cm), 384pp., 12 black-white illustrations, endnotes, references, bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. Dj. somewhat worn w. two small tears, otherwise a v. good copy. ¶ The book 'describes the careers, not merely of Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes, whose names are deservedly famous, but also of their less celebrated predecessors: men and woman like Francis Place, Richard Carlile, the Drsdales, Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in Britain; Robert Dale Owen, Charles Knowlton, and Edward Bliss Foote in America. [...] There is a short biography of each of the major figures.' (blurb)

Keywords: medical history social history