Eleanor Jourdain (1863–1924) was an English academic and author, and Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, 1915 to 1924. She rose to fame following a claim that she and a fellow teacher had slipped back in time to the period of the French Revolution while on a trip to Versailles, known as the Moberly-Jourdain incident. She and Charlotte Anne Moberly wrote a book together about the experience. (They did so under assumed names, which invalidates possible accusations of publicity seeking; their identity was not revealed until the mid-1920s, after Jourdain's death.) The book was a best seller but attracted much criticism.