Margaret E. (Margaret Ernestine) Burton

Margaret Ernestine Burton was an American writer and missionary, born in 1885. Reliable biographical sources describe her as someone who traveled to China and Japan in 1909 and later wrote a number of books drawn from her experiences and research there.

Her work focused especially on missionary life, women's education, and notable women in modern China. That background gives her books a strong sense of place and purpose, while also reflecting the concerns of early twentieth-century Protestant missions.

Burton died in 1969. A listing of her works in The Online Books Page shows that her writing remained substantial enough to leave a lasting bibliographic trail, even if she is less widely known today than some of her contemporaries.