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Mary Paley Marshall, 1850-1944.
English Neoclassical economist and wife of Alfred Marshall.
Mary Paley was a descendant of the utilitarian philosopher and theologian William Paley. Mary Paley would go on to become one of the first female students at Cambridge University. She enrolled at the women's residence Sidgwick had established in 1871 (what would eventually becom become Newnham College, Cambridge). She completed the Moral Sciences Tripos in 1874, achieving top marks, but could not receive a degree on account of her gender.
Paley was a lecturer in economics at Newnham College until 1876. Mary Paley married her former economics teacher, Alfred Marshall, in 1876.
In 1885, the couple returned to Cambridge, and Paley resumed her lectureship at Newnham College. Her lectures were compiled and published as Economics of Industry, with her husband as co-author (although the extent of his participation remains ambiguous). Mary Paley is frequently supposed to have had actively participated in the composition of Alfred Marshall's Principles, however there is little evidence to confirm that.
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