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Mrs. Monteith Erskine
1874–1969
A British writer best known for early 20th-century books on reproduction and birth control, she wrote in a direct, practical style aimed at women readers. Her work captures a mix of personal conviction, social debate, and popular medical thinking of its time.
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Sex at choice
by Mrs. Monteith Erskine
About the author
Writing as Mrs. Monteith Erskine, Cicely Grace Quicke was a British author who lived from about 1874 to 1969. She is also recorded as Cicely Grace Quicke and as Lady Erskine after her marriage to Sir James Malcolm Monteith Erskine.
Her best-known books include Sex at Choice (1925) and Nature's Law of Birth Control (1926). These works focused on sex determination, conception, and family planning, presenting ideas she described as the result of many years of study. Today they are mainly of interest as historical examples of how reproduction and women's health were discussed in the early 20th century.
Very little biographical detail appears to be widely available online beyond her names, dates, family connection, and publications. Even so, her surviving books show a writer eager to speak directly to ordinary readers and to take part in the period's lively arguments about marriage, motherhood, and reproductive knowledge.