ABSTRACT
This chapter follows Ida Greaves’ postgraduate education in the United States and Britain, undertaken in the early 1930s. In the United States, she studied at Radcliffe College (Harvard) and Bryn Mawr. Neither of these institutions appeared to live up to her expectation, and in Spring 1932 she applied to register for a PhD at the London School of Economics. Her friend from McGill, Betty Archdale, was already living in London studying law at University College. Betty Archdale was at the centre of a highly influential feminist network. Ida Greaves' doctoral research at LSE was under the supervision of Arnold Plant, generally regarded by his postgraduate students, a group which later included Arthur Lewis, to be an inspiring teacher. Arnold Plant was instrumental in getting Ida Greaves’ thesis published by George Allen & Unwin in 1936.
