Margery Spring Rice: Pioneer of Women’s Health in the Early Twentieth Century

Lucy Pollard has done a wonderful job in bringing Margery Spring Rice so vividly to life.This is a sensitive, affectionate, and fascinating, portrait of a woman whose claim to fame was her role in the struggle (from the 1920s on) to make birth control and reproductive health services available to working class women. The book focuses on her personal life, her family and relationships, more than her campaigning, and it is the richer for that.As a member of the family, the author has had access to family papers and recollections, but she is a fine academic, as well as a great storyteller, who draws on a range of sources, including memoirs of those who moved within the orbit of Spring Rice and her children, and material relating to the North Kensington birth control clinic.I wholeheartedly recommend this book.