About Lucy Stone:
Lucy Stone is known to women's history not only as one of the most important workers for suffrage and other women's rights in the 19th century and as a prominent abolitionist, but also as the first woman to keep her own name after marriage. More: Lucy Stone Biography: A Soul As Free As the Air
Lucy Stone Facts:
Known for: keeping her own name after marriage; anti-slavery and woman suffrage activism
Occupation: reformer, lecturer, editor, women's rights advocate, abolitionist
Dates: August 13, 1818 - October 18, 1893
Family:
- Father: Francis Stone, farmer
- Mother: Hannah (Matthews) Stone
- husband: Henry Blackwell (married May 1, 1855; reformer, editor)
- daughter: Alice Stone Blackwell (September 14, 1857 - March 15, 1950; reformer, editor)
Education:
- various learning and teaching positions
- Oberlin College: graduated August 1847
Organizations:
Religion:
Unitarian (originally Congregationalist)
More About Lucy Stone:
- Lucy Stone Biography: A Soul As Free As the Air
