Quotation and Self-Fashioning in Margaret Paston's Household Letters.

The article presents a criticism of the life of Margaret Paston through some of her private correspondence and papers. Paston was a fifteenth-century gentry family of Norfolk, England. Her letters have been an invaluable primary source for medieval scholars in piecing together the social, cultural, economic, and domestic details of the Paston's life in the late medieval period. Her letters have been a biography that display a woman of considerable influence and consequence in the Paston family.