KNOWLES, LILIAN CHARLOTTE ANNE nee TOMN, 1870-1926
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1870 · died 1926
Lilian Charlotte Anne Knowles was a British historian and Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics (LSE). She was the first female Dean of the Economic History Faculty in the University of London.
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Drafts, lecture notes and correspondence.
Knowles Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
Correspondents
EDWIN CANNAN, Correspondence 1916-20, Cannan Papers, BLPES
ARNOLD PLANT, Notes of Knowles’s lectures at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 1921-2, and correspondence 1922-5, Plant Papers, BLPES
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Notes of Knowles’s lectures at LSE 1921-2, Robbins Papers, BLPES
Printed material
ODNB; Maxine Berg, ‘The first women economic historians’, Economic History Review 2nd series 45 (1992) 308-29
Portraits
Photograph in C.M. Knowles and L.C.A. Knowles, The Economic Development of the British Overseas Empire (1930); photograph in Ralf Dahrendorf, LSE (1995)