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Anna Cope Hartshorne

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Anna Cope Hartshorne
An older white woman, photographed mostly in shadows, with grey hair and wearing a white lace collar or kerchief with a dark garment
Anna Cope Hartshorne, from her 1915 application for a U.S. passport
BornJanuary 8, 1860
Germantown, Pennsylvania
DiedOctober 2, 1957
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)Educator, writer, philanthropist
RelativesCharles Hartshorne (cousin), Richard Hartshorne (cousin)

Anna Cope Hartshorne (January 8, 1860 – October 2, 1957) was an American educator and writer based in Japan. A member of a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family, she was a founder and faculty member of Tsuda University, with her close friend Tsuda Umeko.

Early life and education

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Anna Cope Hartshorne was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Henry Hartshorne and Mary Elizabeth Brown Hartshorne.[1] Philosopher Charles Hartshorne and geographer Richard Hartshorne were her cousins. Her father, a Quaker physician, was an advocate for public health and women's higher education, and a medical missionary in Japan. She attended Bryn Mawr College, where she and Tsuda Umeko became friends.[2][3][4]

Career

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Hartshorne taught English literature at the Friends' School in Tokyo in the 1890s. She helped raise funds to open the Joshi Eigaku Juku (Women's Institute of English Studies) in 1900, which was forerunner of Tsuda University.[5] She taught at the Tsuda school from 1902 until 1940, as a volunteer.[1][6] When the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake destroyed the school's campus, she toured in the United States to raise money to rebuild it,[7][8] and oversaw the rebuilding after Tsuda Umeko's death in 1930.[2] In 1931 she made another tour in the United States, to thank donors, raise more funds, and report on the school's progress.[9] She reported on the school's reopening on another visit to the United States in 1937.[10]

Hartshorne wrote Japan and Her People (1902, 2 vol.)[11][12] and A Reading Journey Through Japan (1904).[13] She also designed the American cover of Nitobe Inazō's Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1900).[14]

Personal life

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Hartshorne left Japan in 1940, possibly intending to return, but World War II made her return to the United States permanent. She died in Philadelphia in 1957, aged 97 years.[2] The main hall at Tsuda University is named for Hartshorne.[1] Her papers are with her father's and grandfather's papers, in the Haverford College library.[15]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Bays, Daniel; Widmer, Ellen (2009). China's Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950. Stanford University Press. pp. 281–282. ISBN 978-0-8047-5949-6.
  2. ^ a b c "Anna Cope Hartshorne". National Women's History Museum. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  3. ^ Rose, Barbara (1992-01-01). Tsuda Umeko and Women's Education in Japan. Yale University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-300-05177-3.
  4. ^ Shinohara, Chika (2014-05-15). "Gender and the Great War: Tsuda Umeko's Role in Institutionalizing Women's Education in Japan". The Decade of the Great War: Japan and the Wider World in the 1910s. BRILL. p. 337. ISBN 978-90-04-27427-3.
  5. ^ Pamonag, Febe D. (2009). "Turn-of-the-Century Cross-Cultural Collaborations for Japanese Women's Higher Education". U.S.-Japan Women's Journal (37): 33–56. ISSN 2330-5037. JSTOR 42772000.
  6. ^ "Native Prima Donna to Aid Tsuda Fund". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1924-03-09. p. 29. Retrieved 2021-11-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Hyland, Jason P. (2017-01-04). "Tsuda College – An Extraordinary Symbol of U.S.-Japan Friendship". American View. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  8. ^ Furuki, Yoshiko (2015-01-31). The White Plum: A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women's Higher Education in Japan. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 132–133. ISBN 978-0-8248-5340-2.
  9. ^ "Thank Philadelphians". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1931-02-28. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-11-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "People You Know". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1937-02-02. p. 16. Retrieved 2021-11-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Hartshorne, Anna C. (1902). Japan and her people. Philadelphia: H. T. Coates & co.
  12. ^ Johnston, J. Stoddard (1903-01-31). "Japan and her People; A Most Interesting Work by a Woman". The Courier-Journal. p. 5. Retrieved 2021-11-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Hartshorne, Anna C. (1904). A Reading Journey Through Japan.
  14. ^ Schmidt, Nathaniel (1904). "Bushido, the Soul of Japan. Inazo Nitobé". The International Journal of Ethics. 14 (4): 506–508. doi:10.1086/intejethi.14.4.2376262.
  15. ^ "Collection: Hartshorne Family papers | Archives & Manuscripts". Tricollege Libraries, Archives and Manuscripts. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
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