Margot Mifflin is an English professor at Lehman College/CUNY and an author who writes about women’s history. Her book Brazen Infidels: Radical Quaker Women and the Fight for Civils Rights will be published by Beacon Press in 2028.
While many women trade surnames they had at birth for their husbands’, some hold on tightly to the former, a tradition famously established by Lucy Stone.
