Alice Huntington Bushee

After graduation, Bushee taught in schools in the United States.^[4]

In 1893, she traveled to Europe to be a missionary where she was slated to work in San Sebastian.^[4][5] In San Sebastian, she worked as a librarian, math teacher and Spanish literature teacher at the International Institute for Girls in Spain (IIGS).^[4] In 1904, she organized the IIGS.^[4] When her father died in 1907, Bushee returned to the United States.^[4]

Bushee graduated with a master's degree in Spanish from Boston University in 1909.^[4] She became a Spanish teacher at Wellesley College in 1911.^[4] Bushee published Fundamentals of Spanish Grammar in 1917 which was praised by Hispania as "nothing quite like it in modern language grammars published in this country."^[6] The grammar book used a deductive method of language instruction.^[6] In 1931, she became the Helen J. Sanborn Chair of Spanish literature at Wellesley.^[4] Other accomplishments include recovering a "lost" volume of the book, The Sucesos of Mateo Alemán, which helped fill in missing history about Mateo Alemán's life in Mexico.^[7] Hispanic Review called Bushee an early pioneer in Hispanic studies in the United States.^[8] She published Three Centuries of Tirso de Molina in 1939 about theater of writer, Tirso de Molina.^[8] She later published a study about de Molina called La prudencia en la mujer in 1948.^[8]

In 1936, Bushee retired to live with her family in Rhode Island.^[4] Bushee died on April 28, 1956, in Woonsocket in the hospital after an illness.^[1][8]

• Bushee papers Archived 2019-04-23 at the Wayback Machine
• The Fundamentals of Spanish Grammar
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