Anna Shipley Cox Brinton (October 19, 1887 – October 28, 1969) was an American classics scholar, college administrator, writer, and Quaker leader, active with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).
Anna Cox Brinton | |
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 Anna Cox Brinton, from a 1934 newspaper. | |
| Born | Anna Shipley Cox October 19, 1887 San Jose, California |
| Died | October 28, 1969 (aged 82) Wallingford, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation(s) | classics scholar, Quaker leader |
| Known for | co-director of Pendle Hill Center for Quaker Studies |
| Spouse | Howard Brinton |
| Children | 4; daughters Lydia, Catharine, and Joan, and son Edward Brinton |
She has credited with being one of those who "reinvented Quakerism" for the 20th century.
Early life
editAnna Shipley Cox was born in San Jose, California,[1] the daughter of Charles Ellwood Cox and Lydia S. Bean Cox, and the granddaughter of Quaker leaders Joel and Hannah Bean.[2] Her father was mathematics professor at Stanford University.[3] She attended Westtown School in Philadelphia, and completed both undergraduate work and doctoral studies at Stanford University, in 1909[4] and in 1917,[5] respectively. Her sister was Catharine Cox Miles, a psychologist based at Stanford University.[3]
Career
editAcademic work
editBrinton was a professor of archaeology and art history, on the faculty at Mills College.[6] She was convener of the college's School of Fine Arts, and dean of the Mills College faculty. She also taught Latin and Greek and was head of the classics department at Earlham College in Indiana, from 1921 to 1928.[7][8] Her dissertation project, a translation and commentary titled Maphaeus Vegius and his Thirteenth Book of the Aeneid, was published by Stanford University Press in 1930,[9] and reissued in 2002.[10]
Brinton prepared A Pre-Raphaelite Aeneid, which was privately published in 1934 by art collector Estelle Doheny (wife of Edward L. Doheny).[11] She was a delegate to the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in Hawaii in 1930.[12][13] In 1931 and 1932, she held a Woodbrooke Fellowship, for advanced studies at Selly Oak College in England.[1] She was a speaker at the Institute of World Affairs meeting in Riverside, California, in 1934.[14]
American Friends Service Committee
editBrinton was active with the AFSC for decades, serving on the organization's board from 1938 to 1965. After World War I, she went to Silesia with the organization's child feeding program. In 1931, she and her husband organized the Pacific Yearly Meeting, a west coast organization of Friends.[5] In 1936, the Brintons were named co-directors of the Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation, near Philadelphia.[5] She was the AFSC's Commissioner for Asia from 1948.[15] In 1952, the Brintons went to Japan with the AFSC, to direct Quaker postwar relief work in Tokyo.[16][17]
In the 1960s, she was president of the Friends Historical Association. She edited a text by William Penn (No Cross, No Crown, 1945),[18] an essay collection, Then & Now: Quaker Essays, Historical and Contemporary (1960)[19] and a reference work, Quaker Profiles: Pictorial & Biographical 1750-1850 (1964),[20] and wrote a biography, The Wit and Wisdom of William Bacon Evans (1964), and a history, Toward Undiscovered Ends: Friends and Russia for 300 Years (1951).[21]
Personal life
editAnna Cox married writer Howard Haines Brinton in 1921. They had four children together. Lydia, the eldest, Catharine, an elementary school teacher, Joan, the youngest, and their son Edward Brinton (1924-2010) became a noted oceanographer. She died from a stroke on October 28, 1969, aged 82 years, in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.[1]
Biographies
edit- Eleanor Price Mather, Anna Brinton: a Study in Quaker Character (1971)[22]
- Anthony Manousos, Living the Peace Testimony: The Legacy of Howard and Anna Brinton (2004 pamphlet)[23]
- Catharine Forbes, compiler, with Catharine Brinton Cary and Joan Brinton Erickson, A Quaker Marriage of Philosophy and Art: Words and Pictures of Howard and Anna Brinton (2012)[24]
- Anthony Manousos, Howard and Anna Brinton: Re-Inventors of Quakerism in the Twentieth Century (2013)[25][26]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Anna Cox Brinton Dies; Author, Scholar". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 30, 1969. p. 20. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ J. W. B. (June 15, 1922). "Lydia Shipley Cox, an Appreciation". The Friend. 95: 594–595.
- ^ a b "Former Richmond Resident is Dead at Philadelphia". The Richmond Item. June 13, 1930. p. 15. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Class of 1909 Has Farewell Day on 'Quad'". San Francisco Call. May 18, 1909. p. 16. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ a b c Abbott, Margery Post; Chijioke, Mary Ellen; Dandelion, Pink (2006). The A to Z of the Friends (Quakers). Scarecrow Press. pp. 31–33. ISBN 9780810856110.
- ^ Rood, Alice Ryan (October 4, 1932). "Dr. Anna Brinton Will Speak on Orient, Europe". Oakland Tribune. p. 26D. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^ "Anna Cox Brinton Talks About Italy to Altrusa Club". Palladium-Item. December 8, 1927. p. 9. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Secure H. H. Brinton, Wife, for Earlham Faculty Next Year". Palladium-Item. February 22, 1922. p. 4. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Brinton, Anna Cox (1930). Maphaeus Vegius and his thirteenth book of the Aeneid, chapter on Virgil in the Renaissance. Aeneidosliber XIII.English & Latin.Twyne. Stanford University Press. hdl:2027/mdp.39015005391282.
- ^ Buckley, Emma (February 2003). "Review of: Maphaeus Vegius and his Thirteenth Book of the Aeneid". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
- ^ Brinton, Anna Cox; Doheny, Estelle; Ritchie, Ward; Rogers, Bruce; Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (1934). A pre-Raphaelite Aeneid of Virgil in the collection of Mrs. Edward Laurence Doheny of Los Angeles: being an essay in honor of the William Morris centenary, 1934. Los Angeles, Calif.: Printed for Mrs. Edward Laurence Doheny by Ward Ritchie. OCLC 4233993.
- ^ "Mrs. Cox, Dr. Brinton Entertained on Kauai". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. August 19, 1930. p. 9. Retrieved September 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Delegates to Conference in Hawaii". The San Francisco Examiner. July 27, 1930. p. 63. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Women Leaders to Take Part in World Institute". The Los Angeles Times. December 5, 1934. p. 6. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Anna Cox Brinton". Women In Peace. 3 March 2017. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
- ^ Chun, Ella (February 7, 1955). "Friends Organization in Important Role in Japan". The Honolulu Advertiser. p. 15. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Leeds, Claire (February 15, 1955). "Distinguished Quaker Leader Back from Japan Assignment". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 16. Retrieved September 20, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "William Penn's No Cross, No Crown". Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. 1945. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
- ^ Brinton, Anna Cox (1960). "Then & Now: Quaker Essays, Historical and Contemporary". Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
- ^ Brinton, Anna Cox (1964). Quaker profiles, pictorial and biographical, 1750-1850 / Anna Cox Brinton. Wallingford, Pa.: Pendle Hill Publications. OCLC 1437981.
- ^ Brinton, Anna Cox (1951). "Toward Undiscovered Ends: Friends and Russia for 300 Years". Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
- ^ Mather, Eleanor Price (1971). "Anna Brinton: a Study in Quaker Character". Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
- ^ Manousos, Anthony. "Living the Peace Testimony: The Legacy of Howard and Anna Brinton". Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
- ^ "A Quaker Marriage of Philosophy and Art: Words and Pictures of Howard and Anna Brinton". Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
- ^ Manousos, Anthony. (2013). Howard and Anna Brinton : re-inventors of Quakerism in the twentieth century : an interpretive biography. Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 9781937768102. OCLC 847246085.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Stanfield, Pablo (2013-11-01). "Howard and Anna Brinton - Review". Western Friend. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
External links
edit- An undated photograph of Anna Cox Brinton, in the California State Library.
- Anna Cox Brinton at Find a Grave
- Anthony Manousos, "'Enthusiasm for Life': the Career of Anna Brinton" LA Quaker (June 12, 2013) and "The Making of 20th century Quaker Peacemakers: Anna and Howard Brinton" (June 12, 2013), blogposts about Anna Cox Brinton, with long quotes from her work, and photographs.
