The right of a married woman to her maiden name.

AuthorLa Follette, Belle Case
Position1927 - Brief article

January 1927

A storm of indignation and protest was created recently by the ruling of the U.S. Register of Copyrights that a married woman must register her claim to copyright in her husband's surname. It is a settled rule of the common law that a person may have any name he or she chooses. The custom of a wife's taking her husband's surname...

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