Eleanora Mary Carus-Wilson

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Carus-Wilson around 1960

Eleanora Mary Carus-Wilson (born December 27, 1897 in Montreal , † 1977 ) was a Canadian-British economic historian whose work at the London School of Economics was on British trade and the piracy of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . She initially emerged through work on Bristol .

life and work

She was the youngest of the three children of Charles Ashley Carus-Wilson (1860-1942) and Mary Petrie. Her father was a professor of electrical engineering at McGill University in Montreal. His wife, Mary Louisa Georgina († 1935), was the daughter of Colonel Martin Petrie. Eleanora Mary attended St. Paul's Girls' School, then studied at Westfield College in London, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1921 and her master's degree in 1926.

She began her academic career at Westfield College, where she initially served part-time as a lecturer under Eileen Power . From 1939 to 1945 she worked at the Ministry of Food , before moving to the London School of Economics after the war , where she was appointed professor of economic history in 1948. In 1963 she became a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .

Carus-Wilson was President of the Economic History Society, succeeding Michael M. Postan . She was one of two women who had been granted an obituary in the EHR by then.

literature

  • Maxine Berg: The first women economic historians , in: Economic History Review 45.2 (1992) 308-329.
  • Joyce Youings : Obituary: Eleanora Mary Carus-Wilson 1897-1977 , in: The Economic History Review, New Series 30.2 (May 1977) iii-v.

Works (selection)

  • The Overseas Trade of Bristol in the Later Middle Ages , Bristol Record Society, 1937.
  • An industrial revolution of the thirteenth century? , in: Economic History Review , 2nd ser., 11 (1941) 39-60.
  • The English cloth industry in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries , in: Economic History Review, 2nd ser., 14 (1944) 32-50.
  • Medieval Merchant Venturers , London 1954.
  • Essays in Economic History , Vol. 1, London 1954, Vol. 2, London 1962.
  • with Olive Coleman: England's Export Trade: 1275-1547 , Clarendon Press, 1963.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Carus-Wilson, Eleanora Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-British economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH 1977