Friend Beloved: Marie Stopes, Gordon Hewitt, and an Ecology of Letters

An intercontinental portrait of two young scientists exploring the nature of friendship, love, insects, and life on Earth.

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.