This is an updated post on Margaret. I will be speaking about her next Saturday, August 3, 2024 at The Huntington Homestead Museum at 1 P.M. A Puritan merchant's wife, this woman (not Margaret) chewed on arsenic to obtain a pale face. Her portrait hangs in Strangers' Hall Museum in Norwich, England. Black clothing was the most expensive. Lace was Flemish. Margaret might have had a similar look to her, especially the black dress and lace collar. In honor of Women's History mon
