Havelock Ellis
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Henry Havelock Ellis was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homose
Ellis in 1913
Edith Lees and Havelock Ellis
Commemorative plaque dedicated to Ellis and his wife at Golders Green Crematorium
Inmate of Elmira Reformatory showing four views of head The Criminal
Margaret Sanger
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Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and was instrumenta
Havelock Ellis
…a Fellowship House in Bloomsbury. Their "open marriage" was the central subject in Ellis's autobiography, My Life. Ellis reportedly had an affair with Margaret Sanger. According to Ellis in My Life, his friends were much amused at his being considered an expert on sex. Some knew that he reportedly suffered from…
Sanger in 1936
First issue of The Woman Rebel newsletter, March 1914. Seven issues were published.
This page from Sanger's Family Limitation, 1919 Ninth edition, describes a cervical cap.
Sanger with her sister, Ethel Byrne, on the steps of a New York courthouse during a trial in 1917.