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Signature of LUCY STONE, American Suffragette

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Signature of "Lucy Stone" Suffragette and The First American Woman to Keep Her Last Name after Marriage

LUCY STONE, American Suffragette.
Brown Ink Signature "Lucy Stone", on cut paper measuring 2.25" x 4" by sight, matted to an overall size of 14" x 11.25", mounted at corners on the back, Choice Extremely Fine. The signature has biographical notes on the back, and the lot includes a "Lucy Stone" commemorative U.S. postage stamp.

Lucy Stone (1818-1893) was a prominent American suffragist, wife of abolitionist Henry Brown Blackwell (1825-1909) and the mother of Alice Stone Blackwell, another prominent suffragette. Stone was best known for being the first recorded American woman to keep her own last name upon marriage and being the first woman in Massachusetts to receive a college degree. In 1870 she founded the "Woman's Journal", the publication of the American Woman Suffrage Association. Lucy Stone's refusal to take husband's name, as an assertion of her own rights, was controversial at the time. Women who continue to use their birth names after marriage are still occasionally known as "Lucy Stoners" in the U.S. In 1968, the U.S. Postal Service honored Stone with a 50-cent postage stamp.

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