Ellen McArthur

Ellen Annette McArthur FRHistS (1862–1927) was a British economic historian.

For the sailor, see Ellen MacArthur.

Ellen McArthur

FRHistS
Born
Ellen Annette McArthur

(1862-06-19)19 June 1862
Duffield, Derbyshire, England
Died4 September 1927(1927-09-04) (aged 65)
Cambridge, England
Academic background
Alma materGirton College, Cambridge
Academic advisorsWilliam Cunningham[1]
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineEconomic history
Notable studentsM. Dorothy George[2]
Notable works"Women Petitioners and the Long Parliament" (1909)

Born on 19 June 1862 in Duffield, Derbyshire, McArthur was educated at Girton College, Cambridge,[3] where she later became the tutor in history. In 1893 she became the first female lecturer at the University of Cambridge Local Examinations & Lectures Syndicate. She was the first woman to receive the degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Dublin, under ad eundem arrangements (see steamboat ladies).

Among the publications she contributed to were Outlines of English Industrial History, Dictionary of Political Economy, and the English Historical Review.

McArthur died of illness on 4 September 1927. She never married and had no children. A monetary endowment created by her will at the University of Cambridge, the Ellen McArthur Fund, has supported lectures, research studentships, and other awards relating to economic history.

In 2017, she featured in a conference, London's Women Historians, held at the Institute of Historical Research.[4]

See also

References

Footnotes
  1. Erickson 2018, p. 29.
  2. Erickson 2018, p. 46.
  3. Erickson 2006.
  4. London's Women Historians. Laura Carter & Alana Harris, Institute of Historical Research, 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2019.

Bibliography
  • Erickson, Amy Louise (2006). "McArthur, Ellen Annette (1862–1927)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48500.
  •  ———  (2018). "Ellen Annette McArthur: Establishing a Presence in the Academy". In Smith, Hilda L.; Zook, Melinda (eds.). Generations of Women Historians: Within and Beyond the Academy. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 25–48. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77568-5_2. ISBN 978-3-319-77568-5.


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