Anna Cope Hartshorne

Anna Cope Hartshorne was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Henry Hartshorne and Mary Elizabeth Brown Hartshorne.{{Cite book|last1=Bays|first1=Daniel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A9g0OAP5GaMC&dq=Anna+Cope+Hartshorne&pg=PA281|title=China's Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950|last2=Widmer|first2=Ellen|date=2009|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-5949-6|pages=281–282|language=en}} 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.{{Cite web|title=Anna Cope Hartshorne|url=https://www.womenshistory.org/anna-cope-hartshorne|access-date=2021-11-08|website=National Women's History Museum|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Rose|first=Barbara|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aZ0_EAAAQBAJ&dq=anna+hartshorne&pg=PA112|title=Tsuda Umeko and Women's Education in Japan|date=1992-01-01|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-05177-3|pages=83|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Shinohara|first=Chika|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dWi7AwAAQBAJ&dq=anna+hartshorne&pg=PA337|title=The Decade of the Great War: Japan and the Wider World in the 1910s|date=2014-05-15|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-27427-3|pages=337|language=en|chapter=Gender and the Great War: Tsuda Umeko's Role in Institutionalizing Women's Education in Japan}}

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.{{Cite journal|last=Pamonag|first=Febe D.|date=2009|title=Turn-of-the-Century Cross-Cultural Collaborations for Japanese Women's Higher Education|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42772000|journal=U.S.-Japan Women's Journal|issue=37|pages=33–56|jstor=42772000|issn=2330-5037}} She taught at the Tsuda school from 1902 until 1940, as a volunteer.{{Cite news|date=1924-03-09|title=Native Prima Donna to Aid Tsuda Fund|pages=29|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83225640/the-philadelphia-inquirer/|access-date=2021-11-08|via=Newspapers.com}} When the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake destroyed the school's campus, she toured in the United States to raise money to rebuild it,{{Cite web|last=Hyland|first=Jason P.|date=2017-01-04|title=Tsuda College – An Extraordinary Symbol of U.S.-Japan Friendship|url=https://amview.japan.usembassy.gov/en/english-tsuda-college/|access-date=2021-11-08|website=American View|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Furuki|first=Yoshiko|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G1kEEAAAQBAJ&dq=anna+hartshorne&pg=PA132|title=The White Plum: A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women's Higher Education in Japan|date=2015-01-31|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-5340-2|pages=132–133|language=en}} 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.{{Cite news|date=1931-02-28|title=Thank Philadelphians|pages=2|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88597728/thank-philadelphians/|access-date=2021-11-09|via=Newspapers.com}} She reported on the school's reopening on another visit to the United States in 1937.{{Cite news|date=1937-02-02|title=People You Know|pages=16|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88597879/people-you-know/|access-date=2021-11-09|via=Newspapers.com}}

Hartshorne wrote Japan and Her People (1902, 2 vol.){{Cite book|last=Hartshorne|first=Anna C.|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001267733|title=Japan and her people|date=1902|publisher=H. T. Coates & co.|location=Philadelphia}}{{Cite news|last=Johnston|first=J. Stoddard|date=1903-01-31|title=Japan and her People; A Most Interesting Work by a Woman|pages=5|work=The Courier-Journal|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88584306/japan-and-her-people-a-most/|access-date=2021-11-08|via=Newspapers.com}} and A Reading Journey Through Japan (1904).{{Cite book|last=Hartshorne|first=Anna C.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wX8ZzQEACAAJ|title=A Reading Journey Through Japan|date=1904|language=en}} She also designed the American cover of Nitobe Inazō's Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1900).{{Cite journal|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/intejethi.14.4.2376262|doi=10.1086/intejethi.14.4.2376262|title=Bushido, the Soul of Japan. Inazo Nitobé|year=1904|last1=Schmidt|first1=Nathaniel|journal=The International Journal of Ethics|volume=14|issue=4|pages=506–508|url-access=subscription}}

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. The main hall at Tsuda University is named for Hartshorne. Her papers are with her father's and grandfather's papers, in the Haverford College library.{{Cite web|title=Collection: Hartshorne Family papers {{!}} Archives & Manuscripts|url=https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/hcmc-1030|access-date=2021-11-08|website=Tricollege Libraries, Archives and Manuscripts}}

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• [http://lib.tsuda.ac.jp/DigitalArchive/e_df2.html Photographs of Hartshorne Hall at Tsuda University]

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