St Hugh's College was founded as a women's college by Elizabeth Wordsworth, great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth, at 25 Norham Road in 1886, using money left to her by her father Christopher Wordsworth (1807–1885), a Bishop of Lincoln.
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Battiscombe also wrote biographies of Christina Rossetti (1965) and Shaftesbury (1974), and her other titles include Two on Safari (1946); English Picnics (1949); Reluctant Pioneer: The Life of Elizabeth Wordsworth (1978); The Spencers of Althorp (1984); and Winter Song, a book of poems (1992).