14 Facts About Elizabeth Wordsworth

Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth was founding Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and she funded and founded St Hugh's College.

Elizabeth Wordsworth was an author, sometimes writing under the name Grant Lloyd.

Elizabeth Wordsworth learned several modern languages as well as Latin and Greek, though her knowledge of science and mathematics was meagre.

Elizabeth Wordsworth had a "persevering familiarity" with the Greek testament, as well as the Iliad, which she read at the rate of fifty lines a day with the help of a Latin translation.

Elizabeth Wordsworth's mother was Susanna Hatley Frere and her father Christopher Wordsworth was a headmaster and later the Bishop of Lincoln.

Elizabeth Wordsworth's brothers were John Wordsworth, Bishop of Salisbury, and Christopher Wordsworth, a liturgical scholar.

Elizabeth Wordsworth travelled on European family trips and she was brought up in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey and in Stanford in the Vale in Berkshire.

Elizabeth Wordsworth was the great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth.

Elizabeth Wordsworth was the founding Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 1879 as a college for female undergraduates, on Norham Gardens in North Oxford.

Elizabeth Wordsworth continued in this role until her retirement in 1909, when she was succeeded by Henrietta Jex-Blake.

Elizabeth Wordsworth believed that women's education at Oxford should be as close to that of men as possible, although she did not believe in their being entered for University prizes, due to the risk of overstimulation.

Elizabeth Wordsworth was a prolific author, writing poetry, plays, biographies and religious articles, as well as writing and lecturing on women's education.

Elizabeth Wordsworth published the novels Thornwell Abbas, and Ebb and Flow, under the pseudonym of Grant Lloyd.

Elizabeth Wordsworth wrote a song "Good and Clever", which like her books came out of copyright in 2002.