Power, Eileen (1889-1940)

British economic historian. Her major interests were the economic position of women in the 13th and 14th centuries, medieval peasant life, and the wool trade. She played a considerable part in the founding of the Economic History Review and in the planning of the Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Her publications include the three-volume Tudor Economic Documents (1924), coauthored with R H Tawney, Some Medieval People (1924), The Wool Trade in English Medieval History (1941), and Medieval Women (1975).

Power was educated at Bournemouth and Oxford high schools and at Girton College, Cambridge University. She was director of studies in history at Girton (1913-21), and, successively, lecturer (1921-24), reader (1924-31), and professor of economic history at the London School of Economics.