What might have been

[shewhomust]

"One day in 1904 ... [Marie] Stopes was at a lunch in Manchester when she made the acquaintance of Captain Robert Scott, who was on a fundraising tour after his first trip to Antarctica. They met again at a dance that evening, and Stopes told a friend that sailor-boy was a 'divine waltzer and reverser'. But more interesting than his footwork were his plans for another trip to the frozen south. Stopes, who was lecturing in paleobotany at Manchester university, was desperate to go with him. Somewhere in a parallel universe, she got her wish, and died on the ice in 1912. She never published Married Love, or set up Britain's first family planning clinic."

Phil Daoust previewing a radio play in The Guardian