M. E. (Mildred Emily) Bulkley

M. E. Bulkley, identified in library and Project Gutenberg records as Mildred Emily Bulkley, is known for The Feeding of School Children, published in 1914. The book was issued under the Ratan Tata Foundation at the University of London and introduced by the economic historian R. H. Tawney, placing her work in the context of serious early social-policy research.

Her writing focused on the practical effects of poverty on children, especially hunger, health, and education. In The Feeding of School Children, she studied how school meal programs developed in England and treated the subject not as charity alone, but as a public question tied to learning and social welfare.

Bulkley is also linked in library records to The Establishment of Legal Minimum Rates in the Boxmaking Industry under the Trade Boards Act of 1909, suggesting a broader interest in labor conditions and reform. Biographical details about her life appear to be scarce in readily available sources, but the surviving record shows a writer deeply engaged with the social problems of her time.