Eleanora Carus-Wilson grew up in London, England and attended St Paul's Girls' School.
11 Facts About Eleanora Carus-Wilson
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Eleanora Carus-Wilson attended Westfield College and graduated in 1921 with a bachelors and 1926 with a master's degree.
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Eleanora Carus-Wilson 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.
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In 1948, Carus-Wilson was made a Reader and then went on to become a professor of economic history.
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Eleanora Carus-Wilson taught at LSE from 1953 until she retired on 1965.
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Eleanora Carus-Wilson was a Ford's lecturer at Oxford between 1964 and 1965, where she taught English history.
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Eleanora Carus-Wilson worked on creating a publishing program for the Economic History Society between the years of 1951 and 1967.
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Eleanora Carus-Wilson was made an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium in 1961 and a fellow of the British Academy in 1963.
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Eleanora Carus-Wilson was given an honorary doctorate in 1968 from Smith College.
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Eleanora Carus-Wilson's work led to the "discovery of the importance of rural industry in late-medieval England," according to The Economic History Review.
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Eleanora Carus-Wilson's research showed a type of revolution in technology that was similar to the Industrial Revolution in the amount of change it caused in 13th century England and how quickly it was adopted.