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Charlotte Anne Elizabeth Moberly (1846–1937) was an English academic, and first Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. Her claimed time-travel book An Adventure , written in 1911 with fellow academic Eleanor Jourdain , became a bestseller.
Charlotte Anne Moberly. Charlotte Anne Moberly, born in 1846, was the tenth of fifteen children. [2] She came from a professional background; her father, George Moberly, was the headmaster of Winchester College and later Bishop of Salisbury. [3] [4] In 1886, Moberly became the first principal of a hall of residence for young women, St. Hugh's ...
Eleanor Frances Jourdain (16 November 1863 – 6 April 1924) was an English academic, Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, 1915 to 1924.She died of a sudden heart attack after being forced to resign her post.
In 1911, Charlotte Anne Moberly (1846–1937) and Eleanor Jourdain (1863–1924) published a book entitled An Adventure, under the names of "Elizabeth Morison" and "Frances Lamont". They described a visit to the Petit Trianon , a small château in the grounds of the Palace of Versailles , where they claimed they saw ghosts including Marie ...
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The "Moberly–Jourdain incident" gave rise to one of the more famous "ghost stories" of the early 20th century, which Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain would recount a decade later in their bestselling book An Adventure. Both of them were administrators at St Hugh's College, a women's college associated with the University of Oxford.