Monday, December 21, 2009

Can This Really Be True?

"The birth control pioneer and eugenicist Marie Stopes, concerned with the decline in what she called the "imperial race", disowned her own son because he married a woman who wore spectacles".

 

From a review by Alex Von Tunzelmann of The Twilight Years. The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars. By Richard Overy.

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