The Culture of Femininity in Women’s Teacher Training Colleges 1914–1945

This chapter concentrates on three teacher training colleges-Homerton, Bishop Otter, and Avery Hill. I want to discuss how feminine ideology with its hegemonic domestic and familial values continued to form throughout our period the enveloping context of the work of these colleges. The two voluntary colleges-Homerton and Bishop Otter-had been training women teachers since the second half of the nineteenth century. Avery Hill, on the other hand, was a new maintained college founded by the London County Council in 1906.