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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 ...
The Petit Trianon in 2005, where the incident purportedly took place. 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".
An Adventure [at the Petit Trianon. Signed Elizabeth Morison, Frances Lamont]. / [by Moberly, Charlotte Anne Elizabeth]. London, 1911. The later editions were published by Faber, including one edited by Joan Evans, 1955; Jourdain, Eleanor F. (1912). An introduction to the French classical drama. Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 551365149.
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It is based on a book by two Oxford academics, Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain who claimed that in 1901, on a day trip to Versailles, they travelled back in time to the 18th century court of Louis XVI of France, in an event known as the Moberly–Jourdain incident.
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.
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