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Coverture

Lucy Stone

1850s
U.S.

In the 1850s, according to DuBois, Lucy Stone criticized "the common law of marriage because it 'gives the "custody" of the wife's person to her husband, so that he has a right to her even against herself.' Stone kept her premarital family name after marriage as a protest "against all manifestations of coverture".


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