Is it really ‘honoring’ a woman to tag her with her husband’s name?
Miss Manners can sympathize with your relatives in thinking it tedious to hear people from previous eras being condemned for not practicing the 21st century’s etiquette conventions.
Women in the arts at that time tended to use their married surnames, usually with their own given names. But few theatergoers would have recognized the name of Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner, although she was one of the most celebrated actresses of her day. She chose to be billed as Mrs. Patrick Campbell, even after the frequently absent Mr. Campbell was long dead and she had married someone else.
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