Margaret W. (Margaret White) Eggleston

Margaret White Eggleston (1878–1971) was an American author whose books centered on storytelling, religious education, and the moral lives of children and young adults. A Jane Addams Digital Edition record gives her birth date as March 4, 1878, and identifies her as an author; Open Library also lists her life dates as 1878–1971.

Her books suggest a career devoted to using stories as a teaching tool. She wrote The Use of the Story in Religious Education (1920) and Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens (1921), and Open Library also credits her with titles such as Stories for Special Days in the Church School, Seventy-five Stories for the Worship Hour, Forty Missionary Stories, and Hymn Stories for Children. A Project Gutenberg edition of Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens describes her as an instructor in storytelling at the School of Religious Education and Social Service, Boston University.

Taken together, those works paint a clear picture of a writer who cared about the power of simple, memorable stories. Her books were written for classrooms, church groups, and home reading, and they still reflect an early twentieth-century effort to teach values through engaging narration.