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Article: Mr. Sophia's pony
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- Natural History
- Article date:
- June 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright American Museum of Natural History Jun 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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If a stolen purse counts only as trash compared with a good name lost, how shall we view the happily expiring custom of addressing a married woman by her husband's name? Perhaps I was an incipient feminist from my cradle, but I do remember wondering, at a very early age, why my mother, Eleanor, often received letters addressed to a Mrs. Leonard Gould.
Among several possible redresses, the game of turning tables in favorable circumstances surely has appeal. Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-76) did good work as an educator of the blind, but I once took great pleasure in identifying him as Mr. Julia Ward Howe to acknowledge his more famous wife, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
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