Eleanor Jourdain

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Eleanor Jourdain

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.

Literature

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 (1989). Ghosts of the Trianon: the complete "An Adventure". Borgo Pr. ISBN 0-8095-7105-6.

External links

The Ghosts of Versailles at www.museumofhoaxes.com
The book
Skeptoid #296: The Versailles Time Slip at Skeptoid

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Persondata
Name	Jourdain, Eleanor
Alternative names
Short description	British academic
Date of birth	1846
Place of birth
Date of death	1937
Place of death

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