Anna Cox Brinton

Anna Cox Brinton
A white woman's face, in profile, facing viewer's right. Her hair is pinned up.
Anna Cox Brinton, from a 1934 newspaper.
Born
Anna Shipley Cox

October 19, 1887
San Jose, California
DiedOctober 28, 1969(1969-10-28) (aged 82)
Wallingford, Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)classics scholar, Quaker leader
Known forco-director of Pendle Hill Center for Quaker Studies
SpouseHoward Brinton
Children4; daughters Lydia, Catharine, and Joan, and son Edward Brinton

Anna Shipley Cox Brinton (October 19, 1887 – October 28, 1969) was an American classics scholar, college administrator, writer, and Quaker leader, active with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).

She has credited with being one of those who "reinvented Quakerism" for the 20th century.