Thanks, Freya/Kirsten. I appreciated learning more of the history of rendering us invisible through law and common usage. My great great grandmother, Rachel Minerva Owsley, wrote her "Reminiscences" in the early 1900s in Missouri. She used her own name. My paternal grandmother (Agnes Heisler Barton) wrote and illustrated magazines for young girls, and designed model home interiors at the Chicago World's Fair in 1935. She used her initials to hide that she was female: A.H. B. I continue to use my own name and strongly identify with my siblings, as 'the oldest of seven'. My children have their father's name, with mine as middle name. Yes, it does matter.
Thanks, Freya/Kirsten. I appreciated learning more of the history of rendering us invisible through law and common usage. My great great grandmother, Rachel Minerva Owsley, wrote her "Reminiscences" in the early 1900s in Missouri. She used her own name. My paternal grandmother (Agnes Heisler Barton) wrote and illustrated magazines for young girls, and designed model home interiors at the Chicago World's Fair in 1935. She used her initials to hide that she was female: A.H. B. I continue to use my own name and strongly identify with my siblings, as 'the oldest of seven'. My children have their father's name, with mine as middle name. Yes, it does matter.