[lace-chat] Another interesting bit on surnames

[Jean Nathan]

When letters are addressed jointly, ours are to Mr and Mrs William Nathan 
(William being my husband's first name). I believe that strictly speaking I 
should be address as Mrs William Nathan - think again!!!!! That implies the 
old idea of a wife belonging/being subservient/being part of, etc her 
husband. Would have been perfectly acceptable to women probably until WW2, 
when women went out and did the jobs that men would have done had they not 
been fighting. Prior to that most women had to rely on their husband's to 
bring in an income while they stayed home and looked after the house and 
children. A married woman going out to work would have been disapproved of. 
Don't think many of us in the generation that followed the war would put up 
with the idea that we aren't equal to our husbands.

Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK 

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