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Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was married to the radical Henry Blackwell in 1855 after a mutual declaration rejecting the legal superiority of the man in marriage, she gained wide publidty when she chose to retain her own surname despite her marriage.

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The epithet "Lucy Stoner" was coined to mean a woman who advocated doing the same.

In the 1860s she helped to establish the American Woman Suffrage Association and founded and edited the Boston Woman's Journal, a suffragist pape read more...

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