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Historical person
1429–1488
Elizabeth Paston was a member of the Norfolk gentry family whose correspondence survives in the Paston Letters. Her life, marriage negotiations and family disputes reveal the constrained choices, property concerns and domestic pressures experienced by a fifteenth-century gentlewoman.
In Anne O’Brien’s The Royal Game, Margaret Paston manages households and estates while her husband pursues legal business; Elizabeth Paston confronts the use of marriage as an instrument of family strategy; and Anne Haute becomes connected to the next generation’s ambitions.
Series
The Paston Family sequence follows a Norfolk gentry household during the Wars of the Roses, drawing on the surviving Paston Letters. The Royal Game centres on Margaret Paston, Elizabeth Paston and Anne Haute as the family acquires land and influence amid legal disputes and violence. A Marriage of…
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