ABSTRACT
Stella Browne is largely known to women's history as an enthusiastic advocate of birth control, a Communist who resigned from the Party over the question of whether women's control over their own reproduction was a proletarian issue, and a founder of the Abortion Law Reform Association. One of the more 'personal' sequences of letters is probably her lengthy correspondence with the pioneer sexologist Havelock Ellis. A brief biographical essay by Sheila Rowbotham entitled A New World for Women appeared in 1977, from which one gets an impression of a woman whose life centred around addressing public meetings, writing articles, and translating the work of continental sexologists. Her criticism of Marie Stopes's deficiencies in getting up the petition to President Wilson on Sanger's behalf has already been mentioned. The blending of the personal, the political, and business matters in correspondence as revealed by the case of Stella Browne was not necessarily a particularly gendered matter.
