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Margaret E. (Margaret Ernestine) Burton
1885–1969
A traveler, teacher, and writer, she turned firsthand experience in East Asia into books about women's education, social change, and Christian service. Her work brings together biography, mission history, and a close interest in how women were shaping modern China and Japan.
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Notable Women of Modern China
by Margaret E. (Margaret Ernestine) Burton
About the author
Born in Massachusetts in 1885, Margaret Ernestine Burton was an American missionary writer who traveled to China and Japan in 1909. Reliable biographical sources describe her as coming from a Baptist family and note that she became especially interested in women's education and Christian work in East Asia.
Burton wrote several books drawn from her travel, research, and missionary experience. Among the works associated with her are The Education of Women in China, Notable Women of Modern China, and Comrades in Service. Her writing often focused on the lives of women, education, and the meeting of social reform and faith.
She died in 1969. Although she is not widely known today, her books remain useful as early English-language accounts of women, education, and religious life in China and Japan during a period of major change.