Las Doncellas Nobles. Un proyecto educativo entre la continuidad y la ruptura durante el período franquista

This article addresses the life and educational experiences of a generation of women educated at the Real Colegio de Doncellas Nobles (Royal College of Noble Maidens) in Toledo, a private and religious institution founded in 1551 and a pioneer in the exclusive training of women. Former students, through long-silenced oral testimonies, reconstruct their experiences to explore the nature, origin and evolution of the educational project developed at the centre from the 1940s to the 1960s. Despite the limitations of the study, the research adds to previous literature a new and privileged approach to the centre’s history, showing the singularities, continuities and ruptures of the formative model for women during this turbulent period.