Alice Browne Frame papers, 1905 -- 1971

Collection context

Creator:
Frame, Alice Browne, 1878-1941
Abstract:
Alice Browne Frame was a Mount Holyoke College alumna, missionary worker in China, and teacher and Dean at North China Union Women's College, Beijing, Yenching University 燕京大學. The collection contains correspondence and other materials.
Extent:
0.5 linear feet (0.5 linear; feet 1 box)
Language:
English .
Scope and content:

This collection contains correspondence, signature and catalogue cards, a pamphlet for Frame's memorial service, and provenance materials.

Biographical / historical:

Alice Seymour Browne was born on October 29, 1878 in Harpoot, Turkey, where her parents were missionaries. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1900 and from Hartford Seminary in 1903. In 1905 she went to China to begin her mission work, supported by students and alumnae of her college. In 1913 she married Murray Scott Frame, a missionary evangelist associated with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; he died of typhus fever in 1918.

That same year Alice Browne Frame began teaching at North China Union Women's College in Beijing, and became dean of the college in 1922 as it became affiliated with Yenching University 燕京大學 . In 1931 she was pressured to resign to allow the appointment of a Chinese dean. In the spring of 1941 she had an operation in Beijing to remove a malignant tumor, and recovered from the operation, but in April it was decided that she should return to America. Frame died of cancer in Newton, MA on August 16, 1941. Throughout her life she wrote to her former classmates and current students at Mount Holyoke College, sending her letters via the Woman's Board of Missions in Boston, MA.

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Preferred citation:

Item description, MRL6: Alice Browne Frame Papers, box #, folder #, The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University in the City of New York.

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