Elizabeth Wordsworth

thumb|Elizabeth Wordsworth in 1928 Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth DBE (22 June 1840 – 30 November 1932) was founding Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and she funded and founded St Hugh's College. She was also an author, occasionally writing under the name Grant Lloyd. Quotes If all the good people were clever,  And all clever people were good,The world would be nicer than ever  We thought that it possibly could.But somehow, ’tis seldom or never  The two hit it off as they should;The good are so harsh to the clever,  The clever so rude to the good! "Good and Clever" (25 February 1890), sts. 1, 2, in St. Christopher, and Other Poems (1890), p. 138 She was a gentlewoman, a scholar, and a saint, and after having been three times married, she took a vow of celibacy. What more could be expected of any woman? On Lady Margaret Beaufort. Glimpses of the Past (1912), pp. 144–45 External links Category:1840 births Category:1932 deaths Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Women authors from England Category:Philanthropists from England Category:Women born in the 19th century Category:People from London