Dorothy Marshall (26 March 1900 – 13 February 1994) was an English social historian.[1]
She was educated atPreston grammar school andGirton College,Cambridge, where her tutor wasEileen Power.[1] She researched her PhD at theLondon School of Economics. In 1926 it was published asThe English Poor in the Eighteenth Century.[1] Marshall worked atBedford College,Durham University and finallyCardiff University, where one of her pupils wasRoy Jenkins.[1] In his memoirs, Jenkins wrote: "I think her teaching may have been crucial. I desperately needed coaching in the writing of Oxford-style history essays. Even she could not get me a scholarship, but with her help I secured in March 1938 my entry toBalliol".[2]
