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Eleanor Merchant
Eleanor gained her BA Hons in Literae Humaniores at New College, University of Oxford and her MA in Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, working as a Management Consultant in France, Italy and London in the intervening four years.
She is currently completing her doctoral thesis on biography and translation in 16th-Century England and Continental Europe. Her thesis examines the career and published works of Laurence Humphrey, the mid-sixteenth century statesman; Oxford academic, Marian exile and Protestant reformer.
Eleanor teaches Latin to graduate students at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), part of the academic landscape of Queen Mary, University of London.
She has recently translated and written the introduction for 'A Handbook on Good Manners for Children: De Civilitate Morum Puerilium Libellus' by Desiderius Erasmus (Preface, 2 October 2008).
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Published Work
Erasmus: A Handbook on Good Manners for Children»
A 16th century bestseller, newly translated from the Latin and with an introduction by Eleanor Merchant, published in October 2008.
With three impeccably-behaved hooligans of her own, her interest in manners goes beyond the academic.
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