Grace Eleanor Hadow OBE (9 December 1875 in Cirencester, England – 19 January 1940, Marylebone, London) was an author, principal of what would become St Anne's College, Oxford, and vice-chairman of the National Federation of Women's Institutes (NFWI). Hadow was born in 1875 at South Cerney vicarage, near Cirencester. She was the youngest child and fourth daughter of the Reverend William Elliott Hadow and Mary Lang née Cornish. Her godfather was Sir William Henry Hadow who was also her elder brother. In 1888, aged 13, Hadow won a scholarship to study at Brownshill Court School, Stroud. From the age of 16, she attended Truro High School. In 1894, she went to Trier in Germany for a year to study language and music. From 1899 to 1900, she taught at Cheltenham Ladies' College. In 1900, she began to study English at Somerville College, Oxford, but as a woman, she was not allowed to receive a degree, although she could sit exams and took first-class honours in 1903. While a student, she became president of the Women's Debating Society. In 1903, Hadow went to teach at Bryn Mawr in the United States. She returned to Oxford in 1904 to work as a don, becoming a tutor at Lady Margaret Hall in 1908. That year she published The Oxford Treasury of English Literature: Growth of the drama, which would grow to three volumes. Her other publications included a selection of the works of John Dryden (1908) and editions of Robert Browning's Men and Women (1911) and Walter Raleigh's The Historie of the World (1917). Less