Well technically "Mary Ann Evans" was her legal name because she and Lewes weren't legally married, he was technically a bigamist because he'd never divorced his first wife It was to avoid legal trouble that she didn't formally change her name until after he died https://twitter.com/elliotreed/status/1294384666426843137 …
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I mean in the case of Hillary Rodham Clinton we pretty much do *know* for a fact that she changed her name unwillingly and because of sexism, because she didn't do so until Bill Clinton's 1982 gubernatorial campaign, after they'd been married seven years
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Specifically because she'd come under attack in his first gubernatorial campaign in 1978 for not changing her name Her biographers mention she resisted it at first, always going by the full "Hillary Rodham Clinton" or the initials "HRC" (her staffers nicknamed her "Herc")
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And yet despite this fact, she's been Hillary Clinton for more of her life than she was Hillary Rodham, "Clinton" is the name under which her greatest accomplishments were recorded, and as of 2020 people pretty clearly think of her when they say "Clinton" and not Bill
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It would be understandable if she wanted it changed back at some point, but also hugely presumptuous of someone to just go ahead and change it for her
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