Dorothy Marshall (historian)

Dorothy Marshall (26 March 1900 – 13 February 1994) was an English social historian.^[1] She was educated at Preston grammar school and Girton College, Cambridge, where her tutor was Eileen Power.^[1] She did postgraduate research at the London School of Economics and in 1926 her PhD was published as The English Poor in the Eighteenth Century.^[1] Marshall worked at Bedford College, Durham University and finally Cardiff University, where one of her pupils was Roy Jenkins.^[1]

Works

• The English Poor in the Eighteenth Century (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1926).
• English People in the Eighteenth Century (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1956).
• Eighteenth Century England (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1962).

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