“While many women trade surnames they had at birth for their husbands’, some hold on tightly to the former, a tradition famously established by Lucy Stone, who decreed, ‘A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.’ “
Read more about this interesting suffragist who defied tradition in 1856 by retaining her own surname after marriage.
Submitted by Robin McCarthy
