(Source: dontrblgme)
Leylek Hanım
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Two years of courtship and friendship convinced Lucy to accept Henry’s offer of marriage. She wrote to him, “A wife should no more take her husband’s name than he should her’s. My name is my identity and must not be lost.”
Henry agreed with her. “I wish, as a husband, to renounce all the privileges which the law confers upon me, which are not strictly mutual. Surely such a marriage will not degrade you, dearest.”
(Massachusetts, 1855)
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(Source: womenshistory.about.com)
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