The Paston Women’s Letters exist in the fifteenth-century collection of 421 letters, wills, legal documents, and memoranda connected to the East Anglian Paston family. Over the course of three generations, the family rose from peasantry to knighthood and many of their surviving documents relate to their concern with maintaining their wealth, land, social status, and legal business. The fifteenth-century Paston Women’s Letters give a remarkable glimpse into the lives of three generations of women connected to the Norfolk family. They reveal that the women were integral to the running of family life and business. They were trusted partners of their husbands, adept marriage brokers, formidable matriarchs, and strong figures on the sociopolitical stage of East Anglia. Alongside this, their letters contain richly tangible references to material aspects of life within the East Anglian mercantile elite, from orders of ginger, saffron, and sugar, to references to beads and crossbows.