Hilda Hartle

Hilda Jane Hartle28 was born on 11 September 1876 in Birmingham, the daughter of Edward Hartle and Anne Jane Warillow. Like so many others, she was educated at King Edward 

VI High School for Girls (KEVI), Birmingham, and then obtained her university education at Newnham between 1897 and 1901. 

In the early years, life for the women students at Homerton was very restricted, as Elizabeth Edwards described  

Homerton was the only one of the early teachers training colleges to teach chemistry,31 and this, largely a result of Hartle. It was at Homerton that Hartle penned her attack on the domestic science movement (see Chap. 1). Awarded a Mary Ewart Travelling Scholarship for 1915/1916, she spent the year in the United States studying experimental methods at American schools and training colleges, observations she published in the Times Educational Supplement and elsewhere. 

In 1920, Hartle was appointed Principal of the Brighton Municipal Training College for Teachers, a post she occupied until her retirement in 1941. The postretirement 30 years were spent actively working for numerous women s organisations. 

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Hilda J. Hartle (P) [13] Lecturer, Chemistry, Homerton Training College, Cambridge... 

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