| − | According to the Margaret Sanger Papers Project, Sanger conducted "a series of affairs with several men, including Havelock Ellis and H.G. Wells".<ref>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/aboutms/ Biographical Sketch]</ref> Her affair with [[H. G. Wells]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=63q8TpP0wtUC&pg=PA170 Radical Womanhood: Feminine Faith in a Feminist World]</ref> is probably the most well known, however she is also known to have had affairs with Herbert Simonds,<ref>[http://scholarworks.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/2148/74/Gross.pdf?sequence=1 MARGARET SANGER: FEMINIST HEROIN | + | According to the Margaret Sanger Papers Project, Sanger conducted "a series of affairs with several men, including Havelock Ellis and H.G. Wells".<ref>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/aboutms/ Biographical Sketch]</ref> Her affair with [[H. G. Wells]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=63q8TpP0wtUC&pg=PA170 Radical Womanhood: Feminine Faith in a Feminist World]</ref> is probably the most well known, however she is also known to have had affairs with Herbert Simonds,<ref>[http://scholarworks.calstate.edu/bitstream/handle/2148/74/Gross.pdf?sequence=1 MARGARET SANGER: FEMINIST HEROINE, PUBLIC NUISANCE, OR SOCIAL ENGINEER?], California State University</ref> Harold Hersey,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vNkTEWUQXIcC&pg=PA494 Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America]</ref> Lorenzo Portet,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Zh7aAAAAMAAJ&dq="lorenzo+portet" Margaret Sanger and the Origin of the Birth Control Movement, 1910-1930: The Concept of Women's Sexual Autonomy]</ref> Harold Child,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=gAEdAAAAYAAJ&dq="harold+child" Havelock Ellis: a biography]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ttAUAQAAIAAJ&q=sanger+%22harold+child%22&dq=sanger+%22harold+child%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLtvvCwpfRAhXRfiYKHfXOBzU4ChDoAQgaMAA British Reform Writers, 1832-1914, Volume 190]</ref> Hugh de Selincourt,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-aGHDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT64 The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4: Round the World for Birth Control, 1920-1966]</ref> and Angus Macdonald.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yngbAQAAMAAJ The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Birth control comes of age, 1928-1939], p. 229</ref> |
| − | E, PUBLIC NUISANCE, OR SOCIAL ENGINEER?], California State University</ref> Harold Hersey,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vNkTEWUQXIcC&pg=PA494 Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America]</ref> Lorenzo Portet,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Zh7aAAAAMAAJ&dq="lorenzo+portet" Margaret Sanger and the Origin of the Birth Control Movement, 1910-1930: The Concept of Women's Sexual Autonomy]</ref> Harold Child,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=gAEdAAAAYAAJ&dq="harold+child" Havelock Ellis: a biography]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ttAUAQAAIAAJ&q=sanger+%22harold+child%22&dq=sanger+%22harold+child%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLtvvCwpfRAhXRfiYKHfXOBzU4ChDoAQgaMAA British Reform Writers, 1832-1914, Volume 190]</ref> Hugh de Selincourt,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-aGHDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT64 The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4: Round the World for Birth Control, 1920-1966]</ref> and Angus Macdonald.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yngbAQAAMAAJ The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Birth control comes of age, 1928-1939], p. 229</ref>
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| | Her affair with [[Havelock Ellis]] probably had the most immediate devastating effect. Sanger first met Ellis in December 1914, and just a few weeks later they were sending each other passionate letters.<ref name=edith>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aNn_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue]</ref> One letter read "I still love all that I have loved, and even if I loved another I should still love you". Ellis' wife Edith was on a speaking tour in America when Havelock mentioned Margaret to her in correspondence. Edith suffered both a physical and nervous breakdown and returned to England. | | Her affair with [[Havelock Ellis]] probably had the most immediate devastating effect. Sanger first met Ellis in December 1914, and just a few weeks later they were sending each other passionate letters.<ref name=edith>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aNn_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 The Birth Control Movement and American Society: From Private Vice to Public Virtue]</ref> One letter read "I still love all that I have loved, and even if I loved another I should still love you". Ellis' wife Edith was on a speaking tour in America when Havelock mentioned Margaret to her in correspondence. Edith suffered both a physical and nervous breakdown and returned to England. |