Anna Cope Hartshorne (January 8, 1860 – October 2, 1957) was an American educator and writer based in Japan. A member of a prominent Philadelphia

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family, she was a founder and faculty member of

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, with her close friend

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Early life and education

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and geographer

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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

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, where she and Tsuda Umeko became friends.

Career

Hartshorne taught English literature at the

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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. She taught at the Tsuda school from 1902 until 1940, as a volunteer. When the

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destroyed the school's campus, she toured in the United States to raise money to rebuild it, and oversaw the rebuilding after Tsuda Umeko's death in 1930. In 1931 she made another tour in the United States, to thank donors, raise more funds, and report on the school's progress. She reported on the school's reopening on another visit to the United States in 1937. Hartshorne wrote ''Japan and Her People'' (1902, 2 vol.) and ''A Reading Journey Through Japan'' (1904). She also designed the American cover of

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's '' Bushido: The Soul of Japan'' (1900).

Personal life

Hartshorne left Japan in 1940, possibly intending to return, but

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made her return to the United States permanent. She died in Philadelphia in 1957, aged 97 years. The main hall at Tsuda University is named for Hartshorne. Her papers are with her father's and grandfather's papers, in the

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library.

References

External links

Photographs of Hartshorne Hall at Tsuda University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hartshorne, Anna Cope 1860 births 1957 deaths Bryn Mawr College alumni Educators from Philadelphia American Quakers American expatriates in Japan American women educators American women writers Academic staff of Tsuda University