Lady Ma of Fufeng dating history

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Lady Ma of Fufeng (扶風馬氏, d. 190) was a Chinese noblewoman from the late Eastern Han dynasty. She was referred to as the wife of Huangfu Gui (皇甫规), a military general, in the Book of the Later Han, which records her biography but states that her name and provenance are unknown; however, the Tang dynasty text Shuduan (書斷) identifies her as Lady Ma of Fufeng. She was a skilled student of literature and an accomplished cursive calligrapher, widely admired as a good, beautiful, versatile, and educated woman, skilled at composition, she often helped draft documents in the cabinet of Huangfu family. She is best known for confronting Dong Zhuo, the warlord who usurped power from the Han dynasty for himself, after he tried to force her to marry him.