Alice Huntington Bushee
{{short description|American teacher (1867–1956)}}
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Alice Huntington Bushee (December 4, 1867 – April 28, 1956) was an American librarian and early pioneer in Hispanic studies. She was a professor at Wellesley College and wrote several books, including Fundamentals of Spanish Grammar.
Early years and education
Bushee was born on December 4, 1867, in Worcester, Massachusetts.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21315842/|title=Alice H. Bushee|date=29 April 1956|work=The Boston Globe|access-date=2018-06-27|language=en|via=Newspapers.com}} She grew up in Morrisville, Vermont. Bushee graduated from the Peoples Academy in 1886.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21315707/|title=Miss Alice Bushee|date=12 May 1956|work=The Burlington Free Press|access-date=2018-06-27|language=en|via=Newspapers.com}} In 1891, she graduated from Mount Holyoke College. She was the class valedictorian.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21315969/|title=Local News|date=18 June 1891|work=News and Citizen|access-date=2018-06-27|language=en|via=Newspapers.com}}
Career
After graduation, Bushee taught in schools in the United States.{{Cite news|url=https://www.iie.es/2017/04/27/alice-huntington-bushee-1867-1956/|title=MUJERES FUERA DE SERIE: ALICE HUNTINGTON BUSHEE (1867-1956)|last=Piñón|first=Pilar|date=2017-04-27|work=Instituto Internacional|access-date=2018-06-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215221344/https://www.iie.es/2017/04/27/alice-huntington-bushee-1867-1956/|archive-date=15 December 2017|language=es-ES}}
In 1893, she traveled to Europe to be a missionary where she was slated to work in San Sebastian.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=12EsAAAAYAAJ&q=%22alice+h+bushee%22&pg=RA3-PA124|title=Annual Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions|publisher=Press of Samuel Usher|year=1891|location=Boston|language=en}} In San Sebastian, she worked as a librarian, math teacher and Spanish literature teacher at the International Institute for Girls in Spain (IIGS). In 1904, she organized the IIGS. When her father died in 1907, Bushee returned to the United States.
Bushee graduated with a master's degree in Spanish from Boston University in 1909. She became a Spanish teacher at Wellesley College in 1911. Bushee published Fundamentals of Spanish Grammar in 1917 which was praised by Hispania as "nothing quite like it in modern language grammars published in this country."{{Cite journal|last=Waxman|first=Samuel M.|date=1918|title=Review of Fundamentals of Spanish Grammar|jstor=331091|journal=Hispania|volume=1|issue=2|pages=111–113|doi=10.2307/331091|hdl=2027/hvd.32044102781341|hdl-access=free}} The grammar book used a deductive method of language instruction. In 1931, she became the Helen J. Sanborn Chair of Spanish literature at Wellesley. Other accomplishments include recovering a "lost" volume of the book, The Sucesos of Mateo Alemán, which helped fill in missing history about Mateo Alemán's life in Mexico.{{Cite news|url=https://archive.org/details/wellesleynews4026well|title=Professor Bushee Elected Member of Spanish Academy|date=5 May 1932|work=Wellesley College News|access-date=28 June 2018|issue=26|volume=40|pages=1, 3}} Hispanic Review called Bushee an early pioneer in Hispanic studies in the United States.{{Cite journal|last=Stafford|first=Lorna Lavery|date=1957|title=Alice Huntington Bushee (1867-1956)|jstor=471237|journal=Hispanic Review|volume=25|issue=1|pages=64}} She published Three Centuries of Tirso de Molina in 1939 about theater of writer, Tirso de Molina. She later published a study about de Molina called La prudencia en la mujer in 1948.
In 1936, Bushee retired to live with her family in Rhode Island. Bushee died on April 28, 1956, in Woonsocket in the hospital after an illness.
References
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External links
- [http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/mountholyoke/mshm013_main.html Bushee papers]
- [https://archive.org/details/fundamentalsspa00bushgoog?q=%22alice+huntington+bushee%22 The Fundamentals of Spanish Grammar]
- [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61739241/alice-huntington-bushee Find-a-Grave Memorial]
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Category:19th-century American librarians
Category:Mount Holyoke College alumni
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Category:Protestant missionaries in Spain