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Title Friend beloved : Marie Stopes, Gordon Hewitt, and an ecology of letters / edited by Laura Jean Cameron
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London : Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

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Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Reopenings -- Pleasant Friday Afternoons -- Insects from Japan -- A Kiss in Canada -- The One Little Sin -- Love's Comedy -- Rereading the Rocks -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "Friend Beloved invites readers to enter the imaginative worlds of two ambitious young scientists: Marie Carmichael Stopes, the paleobotanist who found international fame as a birth control advocate and feminist icon, and Charles Gordon Hewitt, the housefly expert who became one of Canada's trailblazers of nature conservation before he died in the Spanish flu pandemic. Ecology was a new science that connected Stopes and Hewitt, the word coming from oikos, the Greek term for "home." Reproducing a small but significant cache of letters written before the First World War, the book unearths their respective versions of home and shows how these mattered in both domestic affairs and scientific passions. Their co-authored 1909 scientific article, which Hewitt called "the one little sin," is reprinted as an appendix, along with a chapter of Stopes's unpublished novel A Man's Mate, entitled "Friends." Laura Jean Cameron provides a lively, thought-provoking introduction, and her epilogue considers why Stopes and Hewitt's friendship was largely forgotten and how its recollection reveals early ecology's revolutionary promise but also its colonial and eugenic entanglements. Weaving accounts not only of the professional worlds the correspondents traversed in Britain, Japan, and Canada, but also of intensely personal, often triadic relationships involved in the changing nature of their field, Friend Beloved connects careers and emotional trajectories at a key moment in the women's suffrage movement and the making of modern science."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 13, 2021)
Subject Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958 -- Correspondence
Hewitt, C. Gordon (Charles Gordon), 1885-1920 -- Correspondence
Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958 -- Friends and associates
Hewitt, C. Gordon (Charles Gordon), 1885-1920 -- Friends and associates
SUBJECT Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958 fast
Subject Ecology -- History
Botanists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
Sex educators -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
Entomologists -- Canada -- Correspondence
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists.
Botanists
Ecology
Entomologists
Friendship
Sex educators
Canada
Great Britain
Genre/Form personal correspondence.
History
Personal correspondence
Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.
Form Electronic book
Author Cameron, Laura, 1966- editor.
Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958. Works. Selections
Hewitt, C. Gordon (Charles Gordon), 1885-1920. Works. Selections
ISBN 0228007135
9780228007135