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Lucy Stone, first American woman to keep her own name after marriage, and activist for women's rights: articles, links and other resources.

Lucy Stone Pictures

Pictures of Lucy Stone, activist.

The Progress of Fifty Years

A speech originally presented by Lucy Stone at the Congress of Women, Columbian Exposition 1893 (World's Fair), Chicago. In this speech she outlines the women's movement from the 1840s through the 1890s.

Lucy Stone

Basic facts about Lucy Stone, abolitionist and woman suffrage worker who kept her own name at marriage.

A Soul as Free as the Air

Lucy Stone: known as the woman who kept her own name after marriage, but involved far more deeply in the struggle for women's rights.

About Lucy Stone

From your Women's History Guide: Lucy Stone's life and work, quotations by Lucy Stone, Lucy Stone's writing, and more.

Legal issues of married women who keep their own names

Alice Marie Beard in a 1974 article on the legality of women keeping their name after marriage.

Lucy Stone

Biography of Stone at Oberlin College's history website.

Lucy Stone - Women of the Hall

Page honoring Lucy Stone's place in the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Lucy Stone League

A current organization dedicated to women's and men's rights to maintain, modify and create their names.

Lucy Stone with Alice Stone Blackwell

Photograph of mother and infant daughter, with brief biographical information on both.

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