Margaret Sanger papers, 1917-1959.

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Margaret Sanger papers, 1917-1959.

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Collection primarily of correspondence formed by Margaret Sanger's biographer, Lawrence Lader, while researching The Margaret Sanger story, published in 1955. Largest groups of correspondence are from Sanger to Lader and to intimate friend and financial backer, Juliet Barrett Rublee. Other correspondents include Hugh De Sélincourt, Havelock Ellis, Anne Kennedy, James Noah H. Slee, and H. G. (Herbert George) Wells. Letters touch on Sanger's travels, conferences, and writing for the promotion of birth control, her periods of ill health, relationships with friends and lovers, and close working relationship with Lader. Brief essays or fragments in the compositions series concern family losses and other autobiographical matters. Photographs cover childhood in Corning, New York, schooling at Claverack College and Hudson River Institute, conferences, and international travel promoting birth control.

2 boxes (.5 linear ft.)

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Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966

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Margaret Louise Higgins was born in Corning, New York, on September 15, 1879, the sixth of eleven children and the third of four daughters born to Anne Purcell Higgins and Michael Hennessey Higgins, a stone mason. Her two elder sisters worked to supplement the family income, and financed her education at Claverack College, a private coeducational preparatory school in the Catskills. After leaving Claverack, Higgins took a job teaching first grade to immigrant children, but decided after a short ...

Lader, Lawrence, 1919-2006

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Author and activist Lawrence Lader (1919- ) has written extensively on abortion rights and family planning in the United States. He was founding chair of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (now the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League) in 1969, and was instrumental in the campaign that produced the 1970 New York State law legalizing abortion. Beginning in 1976 he served as president of the Abortion Rights Mobilization, and has worked for the introduction ...

American Birth Control League

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Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939

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British essayist, editor physician and psychologist. He studied human sexual behavior and his research for Man and Women (1894) led to his major work, the seven volume, Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897-1928). His last writings were the essays on literature and art reprinted in Views and Reviews (1932). From the description of Havelock Ellis papers, 1871-1939 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166017 From the guide to the Havelock Ellis papers, 1871-1939, (M...

Kennedy, Anne.

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De Sélincourt, Hugh, 1878-1951

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Hugh De Sélincourt was born in London and educated at Oxford. He became a journalist, serving as drama critic and literary critic for various London newspapers. He wrote several plays, but is best remembered for his adventure novels. He was a devoted cricket fan, and wrote two novels that revolve around the game; he also played cricket with several literary friends, including P.G. Wodehouse. From the description of The high adventure, circa 1908. (Pennsylvania State University Libra...

Rublee, Juliet Barrett

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Epithet: of Washington DC British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000296.0x000308 Juliet Rublee, autographed to Margaret Sanger (from Margaret Sanger Papers), undated Birth control advocate; Pacifist; Feminist. Juliet Barrett eas born in Chicago in 1875. She attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, CT; she married George Rublee, lawyer and political advisor to Dwight Morrow and later a Wil...

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

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H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells (b. September 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, England-d. August 13, 1946, London, England), best remembered for imaginative novels such as The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds, prototypes for modern science fiction, was a prolific writer and one of the most versatile in the history of English letters. He produced an average of nearly three books a year for more than fifty years, in addition to hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. His works ranged from f...

Claverack College and Hudson River Institute

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American birth control conference

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Slee, James Noah H.,

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