Who's Who This Week: Margaret Paston

For Women's History Month, we've looked at the mighty, the mystical, and the magnetic. Now I'd like to turn your attention to the mundane. Margaret Paston is our featured individual from Who's Who for the week of March 25. She was an ordinary 15th-century woman, who held her family together through thick and thin and whose life is revealed to us through letters from herself and her family. But was she really so ordinary? Decidedly not! Find out more about her in these resources:

• Who's Who Profile of Margaret Paston
• Concise Biography of Margaret Paston
• Encyclopedia Article about the Paston Family Letters

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