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Women's School (Peeresses' School) for Japanese girls from aristocratic families. She returned to Hampton Normal School after a year. Hearing that one of her students wanted to become a nurse but was refused entrance into training schools because of her race, Bacon sought to establish a hospital at
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Bacon graduated from high school but was forced to give up hopes of attending university due to economic circumstances. Nevertheless, she was able to pass examinations for a Bachelor of Arts from
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as her house-guest. The two girls were of similar age, and soon formed a close bond. For ten years the two girls were like sisters and enhanced each other's interests in their different cultures.
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Based on her experiences in Japan, Bacon published three books and many essays, eventually becoming known as a specialist on Japanese culture and women. Her last teaching position was at
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Bacon remained single all her life. She adopted two Japanese girls as her daughters, Umeko's niece Watanabe Mitsu, and Hitotsuyanagi Makiko. The latter married
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selected her father's home as a residence for Japanese women being sent overseas for education by the
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American writer/women's educator/foreign advisor to the Japanese government in Meiji period Japan
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Originally there were five girls sent but two became ill and returned to Japan the other three
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In 1888, Bacon received an invitation to come to Japan from Yamakawa Sutematsu and
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Alice Mabel Bacon was the youngest of the three daughters and two sons of Reverend
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The Attic Letters: Ume Tsuda's Correspondence to Her American Mother
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In April 1900, she was invited back to Japan to help establish the
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Foreign advisors to the government in Meiji-period Japan
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on 1 May 1918 at the age of 60. She was buried at the
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New Haven
Leonard Bacon
Bachelor of Arts
Alma mater
Harvard University
Meiji period
Hampton Institute
Gakushuin
Joshi Eigaku Juku
Miss Capen's School for Girls
American writer
foreign advisor to the Japanese government
Meiji period
Japan
Leonard Bacon
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale Divinity School
Mori Arinori
Meiji government
Iwakura Mission
Yamakawa Sutematsu
Harvard University
Hampton Institute
Tsuda Ume
English language
Gakushuin
Samuel C. Armstrong
Dixie Hospital

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