Deborah
Valenze specializes in 18th- and 19th-century British history. She received her
B.A. from Harvard University (1975) and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University (1982). Her publications
include:
Prophetic Sons and Daughters:
Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England (1985);
The First Industrial Woman (1995);
contributions to
A Companion to Gender
History (2004) and
The Oxford
Encyclopedia of Economic History (2003), as well as essays and articles on
social class and poverty. Her latest book,
The
Social Life of Money in the English Past, appeared in 2006. She is
currently at work on a history of milk. (Barnard)
