
Economic and Social History
PhD Researcher in Economic and Social History (ESRC 1+3)
College of Humanities, University of Exeter
Start date: October 2019
Research topic: The Marriage Market or Simply the Market? The Spouse as a Contested Commodity in Eighteenth Century Britain (MRes), Morality and the Market: Contested Commodification of the Body in Eighteenth-Century England (PhD)
My MRes dissertation explored changes to perceptions and practices of marriage within the context of the shifting eighteenth-century economy. Through the combined analysis of advice literature, parliamentary debates and satire, it explored the intertwined nature of the social and the economic.
Research supervisors: Professor Sarah Toulalan, Dr Richard Ward
Email: spl213@exeter.ac.uk
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