Eleanora Carus-Wilson, Born 1897
professor of economic history
Eleanora Mary Carus-Wilson was a British economic historian. She is known for her work on rural Medieval textile industries in England. Carus-Wilson was born in Montreal, Canada. Mary Carus-Wilson was her mother. She grew up in London and attended St. Paul's Girls' School. She then went on to Westfield College where she graduated in 1921 with a bachelor’s and 1926 with a master's degree. She taught part-time at a boarding school for around 10 years until in 1936 she received a Leverhulme Scholarship so she could focus on research full-time. During World War II, she worked as a civil servant in the Ministry of Food. After the war, she returned to London to teach at the London School of Economics. In 1948, she was made a Reader and then went on to become a professor of economic history. She taught at LSE until she retired on 1965. Carus-Wilson focused on medieval economic history. During the beginning of WWII, she started publishing her research on the cloth industry in England.
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Source: Archived in 2021, with acknowledgement and thanks, from the website of the British Academy at www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk.