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Anne Crosby Emery Allinson was an American educator and writer. She worked as the second dean of the Women’s College.
Background
Anne Crosby Emery Allinson was born on January 1, 1871 in Hancock Point, Maine, United States, the elder of the two children of Lucilius Alonzo Emery and Anne Crosby. Together with her brother, Henry C. Emery, she had the advantages of remarkable parents, of foreign travel as a child, and of a wide circle of interesting friends and relatives. She spent the winters in a charming home near the village of Ellsworth and the summers by the sea fourteen miles away in a house shared by uncles and aunts and cousins--the Crosby relatives who had moved west. Her father, who became chief justice of the state, was a man of sturdy rectitude, while her mother was a rare spirit of exquisite taste, quick wit and intelligence, and a deep religious faith.
Education
Allinson was prepared for college in the public schools of the town and was for two years in Germany. She entered Bryn Mawr College in 1888 and was graduated in 1892, receiving the highest award of her class, the European fellowship. In college, fellow students called her "the paragon, " yet she was fully appreciated as a person and was chosen by the students to be the first president of their self-government association. She was already displaying an executive ability which would make it difficult for her to devote herself exclusively to her studies, while at the same time in her translations of Greek and Latin, especially under Professor Paul Shorey, she was developing a literary style and facility of expression which would lead her away from strictly academic scholarship. During the year 1893-1894 she studied at Leipzig, spending the long spring vacation in Greece and Italy. In 1896 she won her doctor's degree at Bryn Mawr.
Career
Allison was appointed head of the Bryn Mawr School but was released in 1897 to accept a call to the University of Wisconsin as dean of women and assistant professor of classical philology. Three years later she was called to Brown University to be dean of the Women's College (later Pembroke College). Her classes in Greek and Latin, both at Wisconsin and Brown, were her solace for administrative duties. She was also alumna director of Bryn Mawr College, 1906-1908. Allinson later consented to serve as acting dean of Pembroke (1920-1921, 1922-1923). She was also alumna director of Bryn Mawr College, 1906-1908. The union of kindred minds in her marriage found expression in a work of collaboration, Greek Lands and Letters (1909 and subsequent editions), and she later aided her husband in the preparation of an edition of John Conington's translation of Virgil. She spent two winters in Athens, when her husband was at the school of classical studies. She had many social duties in Providence but what remained of her time she devoted to writing.
In addition to many essays she published two books in which her knowledge of the Greeks and Romans was turned upon subjects of popular appeal: Roads from Rome (1913), and Children of the Way (1923). A story about Virgil, "Anima Candida, " which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly for July 1930, was considered one of the best short stories of the year. Her collection of essays, Friends with Life (1925) was an expression of her philosophy of life and reveals her religious faith.
From 1926 until her death she was editor of the woman's page of the Providence Bulletin and wrote its daily column, entitled "The Distaff. " She was able to strike the note of popular taste required of a journalist and brought humor to her wisdom and significance to everyday incidents.
She served as president of the Providence Plantations Club, winning for herself a high position among the women of Rhode Island, and also was elected to the school board on a non-partisan ticket. Occasionally she gave lectures at Brown University on current literature. She was killed when struck by an automobile at Hancock Point, Maine, and was buried at Ellsworth.
Achievements
Allinson had a remarkable career in education and became notable for her writings and for holding high positions in various institutions. Some of the best of her shorter writings were published posthumously in book form in Selections from the Distaff (1932) and Selected Essays (1933). Her literary ventures were chiefly remarkable as the expression, in delightful prose, of a rare personality, for she combined in her writings, as in her character, a gracious gentility and an indomitable spirit.
“Mrs. Allinson enriched the lives of Brown Alumnae in countless ways. She saw life around her and the world of the intellect with such breadth of understanding, such sanity, sincerity, and kindliness that she broadened our intellectual horizons and strengthened our faith in the value of human relationships. "
Connections
On August 22, 1905, Allinson was married to Prof. Francis Greenleaf Allinson. They had on daughter, Susanne.
