-- Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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In Poland, the divorced woman always reverted to her maiden surname;
the widow kept her husband's. Possibly because most divorces were
initiated by males, who either wanted to repudiate the wife or who
wanted to remarry and didn't want to look like bigamists :) But, under
no circumstances did women acquire their husbands' *first* names to
supplant those given to them by parents/church. I was totally
unacquainted with that custom when I came here (even via literature),
which is why I objected so strongly.
