Education
She was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School in London. (Curiously enough, Richard Kahn was educated in the boys’ section of the same school.
She was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School in London. (Curiously enough, Richard Kahn was educated in the boys’ section of the same school.
In 1937, she became a lecturer in economics at the University of Cambridge.
She joined the British Academy in 1958 and was then elected fellow of Newnham College in 1962.
In 1965 she was given the position of full professor and fellow of Girton College.
In 1979, just four years before she died, she became the first female fellow of King's College.
In 1949, she was invited by Ragnar Frisch to become the vice president of the Econometric Society but declined, saying she couldn't be part of the editorial committee of a journal she couldn't read.