ShortHand: The Moberly-Jourdain Incident

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A break in the space-time continuum or an early 20th-century romp in the park with heavy lesbian undertones? Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain’s adventure at the Palace of Versailles has gone down in history as one of the most bizarre claims that has ever been printed. Claiming to have met robot-like palace guards, encountered strange men in period clothing, and even glimpsed Marie Antoinette herself, Moberly and Jourdain spent their lives convinced that they had seen something from a different time, but what really happened?

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