Anna Cox Brinton

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

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.[5] In 1936, the Brintons were named co-directors of the Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation, near Philadelphia.[5] 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]