biography
pronunciation:
[rowt]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1877–1936)
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| biography:
| Journalist and social reformer, born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She moved to New Zealand in 1885, and found fame during World War 1 through her campaign to control venereal disease among New Zealand troops in Europe. A friend of Marie Stopes, she later turned her attention to the sexual education of women. She wrote six books, including Safe Marriage (1922) and The Morality of Birth Control (1925). |
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