Mary Josephine White

Little is firmly documented online about this author’s life, but available public-domain records show that she wrote Raggety: His Life and Adventures, a children’s book privately printed in Washington, D.C., in 1913.

She is also listed on Wikisource as a contributor to the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, where she wrote about the Congregations of Notre Dame. That suggests a writer whose interests reached beyond fiction into religious and historical subjects.

Because biographical details are scarce, her books and reference writing remain the clearest window into her career. What stands out most is a warm, straightforward voice that made her work approachable for general readers.