Lucy Stone. photo ca. 1840 - 1860

Lucy Stone (August_13, 1818 - October_18, 1893) was an American suffragette and the wife of abolitionist Henry Brown Blackwell (1825-1909) (the brother of Elizabeth Blackwell). Born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, Stone was educated at Oberlin College and became a leader of the women's suffrage movement, lecturing extensively on both suffrage and abolition. Her graduation from Oberlin made her the first woman of Massachusetts to earn a college degree. In 1870 she founded, in Boston, the Woman's Journal, the major publication of the women's rights movement at that time, and she continued to edit it for the rest of her life, assisted by her husband and their daughter. That daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950), wrote her biography, Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman's Rights (ISBN 0813919908), which was published in 1930 and again in 1971 (2nd edition).

Lucy Stone's refusal to be known by her husband's name, as an assertion of her own rights, was controversial then and is what she is remembered for today. Women who continue to use their birth names after marriage are still occasionally known as "Lucy Stoners" in the U.S.

Reference and external link

• A profile of Lucy Stone http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa062899.htm
• Lucy Stoner League http://www.lucystoneleague.org/