Known for her work on rural Medieval textile industries in England, she made significant contributions to the understanding of that technology in the region.

[2] She taught part-time at a boarding school for around 10 years until in 1936 she received a Leverhulme Scholarship so she could focus on research full-time.

[5] Her paper, An Industrial Revolution of the Thirteenth Centuryan Industrial Revolution of the Thirteenth Century, was "widely read," and discussed how medieval textile workers made significant contributions to the technology of textile work in England.

[7] Her work led to the "discovery of the importance of rural industry in late-medieval England," according to The Economic History Review.

"[8] Carus-Wilson studied 13th century England's textile industry and described a "rapid adoption of waterpowered fulling.