Jennifer C. Ward is a British historian who is a specialist in medieval women and the history of Essex and East Anglia.
Ward is a former senior lecturer in history at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
The estates of the Clare family, 1066-1317, University of London, London, 1962.The de Bohun charter of Saffron Walden, Saffron Walden Historical Society, 1986. ISBN 0951129104The Essex Gentry and the County Community in the Fourteenth Century, Essex Record Office, 1991. ISBN 0900360860 (Studies in Essex History)English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages, Routledge, 1992. (Medieval World Series)Women of the English Nobility and Gentry, 1066-1500, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. (Manchester Medieval Studies) ISBN 978-0719041143Women in Medieval Europe: 1200-1500, Routledge, London, 2002. ISBN 0582288274 (Longman History of European Women)Brentwood: a history, Phillimore, Chichester, 2004. ISBN 9781860772795Women in England in the Middle Ages, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2006. ISBN 978-1852853464Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare (1295-1360), Boydell Press, 2014. (Suffolk Records Society Book 57) ISBN 978-1843838913 