Mary Josephine White

Mary Josephine White is an obscure author whose surviving public record appears to be quite slim. She is credited as the author of Raggety: His Life and Adventures, a work published in the early 1900s and later preserved by Project Gutenberg.

Because so little reliable biographical information is readily available, it is safest to remember her through the book itself: a warm, whimsical animal story illustrated by Clifford Kennedy Berryman. The scarcity of confirmed details gives her a bit of mystery, but her work still offers a glimpse of the affectionate, lighthearted storytelling that readers of vintage fiction often enjoy.