ABSTRACT
W. Gareth Evans gives ample coverage to the attack on the Anglican control of the Howell's schools, but does not mention any controversy following the Woodard corporation, who were explicitly Anglican, establishing St. Winifred's in Bangor in 1887. The rules of the hall at Bangor were strict, like those of similar residences in women's higher education in the 1890s. Evans does not set the Bangor scandal into its context, which was the era of 'double conformity' in women's education. Evans's account of the scandal at Bangor in 1892 and shows a lack of understanding of the double conformity strategy. The dangers to physical health countered by medical inspection and physical education. The safeguards installed by feminist pioneers against moral danger, and those intended to provide a safe background for the PE and the academic curriculum were essentially pollution control measures in the terms outlined by Mary Douglas.
