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Anna Cox Brinton
Birth Name:Anna Shipley Cox
Birth Date:October 19, 1887
Birth Place:San Jose, California
Death Place:Wallingford, Pennsylvania
Occupation: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

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).

She has credited with being one of those who "reinvented Quakerism" for the 20th century.

Early life

Anna 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.

Career

Academic work

Brinton 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. She was a speaker at the Institute of World Affairs meeting in Riverside, California, in 1934.[14]

American Friends Service Committee

Brinton 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. In 1936, the Brintons were named co-directors of the Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation, near Philadelphia. 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

Anna 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.

Biographies

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Anna Cox Brinton Dies; Author, Scholar. October 30, 1969. The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 20, 2019. 20. Newspapers.com.
  2. J. W. B.. June 15, 1922. Lydia Shipley Cox, an Appreciation. The Friend. 95. 594–595.
  3. News: Former Richmond Resident is Dead at Philadelphia. June 13, 1930. The Richmond Item. September 20, 2019. 15. Newspapers.com.
  4. News: Class of 1909 Has Farewell Day on 'Quad'. May 18, 1909. San Francisco Call. September 20, 2019. 16. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  5. Book: The A to Z of the Friends (Quakers). Abbott. Margery Post. Chijioke. Mary Ellen. Dandelion. Pink. 2006. Scarecrow Press. 9780810856110. 31–33. en.
  6. News: Dr. Anna Brinton Will Speak on Orient, Europe. Rood. Alice Ryan. October 4, 1932. Oakland Tribune. September 20, 2019. 26D. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  7. News: Anna Cox Brinton Talks About Italy to Altrusa Club. December 8, 1927. Palladium-Item. September 20, 2019. 9. Newspapers.com.
  8. News: Secure H. H. Brinton, Wife, for Earlham Faculty Next Year. February 22, 1922. Palladium-Item. September 20, 2019. 4. Newspapers.com.
  9. Book: Brinton, Anna Cox. Maphaeus Vegius and his thirteenth book of the Aeneid,chapter on Virgil in the Renaissance. Aeneidosliber XIII.English & Latin.Twyne . 1930. Stanford University Press. 2027/mdp.39015005391282.
  10. Buckley. Emma. February 2003. Review of: Maphaeus Vegius and his Thirteenth Book of the Aeneid. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 1055-7660.
  11. Book: 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. Brinton. Anna Cox. Doheny. Estelle. Ritchie. Ward. Rogers. Bruce. Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress). 1934. Printed for Mrs. Edward Laurence Doheny by Ward Ritchie. Los Angeles, Calif.. en. 4233993.
  12. News: Mrs. Cox, Dr. Brinton Entertained on Kauai. August 19, 1930. Honolulu Star-Bulletin. September 19, 2019. 9. Newspapers.com.
  13. News: Delegates to Conference in Hawaii. July 27, 1930. The San Francisco Examiner. September 20, 2019. 63. Newspapers.com.
  14. News: Women Leaders to Take Part in World Institute. December 5, 1934. The Los Angeles Times. September 20, 2019. 6. Newspapers.com.
  15. Web site: Anna Cox Brinton. Women In Peace. 3 March 2017 . en-US. 2019-09-20.
  16. News: Friends Organization in Important Role in Japan. Chun. Ella. February 7, 1955. The Honolulu Advertiser. September 20, 2019. 15. Newspapers.com.
  17. News: Distinguished Quaker Leader Back from Japan Assignment. Leeds. Claire. February 15, 1955. The San Francisco Examiner. September 20, 2019. 16. Newspapers.com.
  18. Web site: William Penn's No Cross, No Crown. 1945. Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. en-US. 2019-09-20.
  19. Web site: Then & Now: Quaker Essays, Historical and Contemporary. Brinton. Anna Cox. 1960. Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. en-US. 2019-09-20.
  20. Book: Brinton, Anna Cox. Quaker profiles, pictorial and biographical, 1750-1850 / Anna Cox Brinton.. 1964. Pendle Hill Publications. Wallingford, Pa.. en. 1437981.
  21. Web site: Toward Undiscovered Ends: Friends and Russia for 300 Years. Brinton. Anna Cox. 1951. Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. en-US. 2019-09-20.
  22. Web site: Anna Brinton: a Study in Quaker Character. Mather. Eleanor Price. 1971. Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. en-US. 2019-09-20.
  23. Web site: Living the Peace Testimony: The Legacy of Howard and Anna Brinton. Manousos. Anthony. Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. en-US. 2019-09-20.
  24. Web site: A Quaker Marriage of Philosophy and Art: Words and Pictures of Howard and Anna Brinton. Pendle Hill Quaker Books & Pamphlets. en-US. 2019-09-20.
  25. Book: Manousos, Anthony.. Howard and Anna Brinton : re-inventors of Quakerism in the twentieth century : an interpretive biography. 2013. 9781937768102. Philadelphia, PA. 847246085.
  26. Web site: Howard and Anna Brinton - Review. Stanfield. Pablo. 2013-11-01. Western Friend. en. 2019-09-20.

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