Margaret Ernestine Burton (1885–1969) was an American missionary who traveled to

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

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Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

in 1909. She wrote several books based on her experiences and research while there. Burton was born in Massachusetts to a Baptist pastor and teacher. When her father was sent to a work-related journey to the Far East, Margaret travelled with him to look at women’s education there. When she returned to the US she wrote several books on the subject. She was committed to women’s education and advocated a holistic position on the relationship between evangelism and education. She was a member of the Board of Education of the Northern Baptist Convention as well as the Executive Board of the Association for Adult Education and the Department of Education; she was also heavily involved in the YMCA. She returned to China in 1921 as a member of the China Education Commission. Her books include: *(1911) '' The Education of Women in China''
(1912) ''Notable Women of Modern China''
*(1914) '' The Education of Women in Japan'' *(1916) Comrades in Service
(1918) ''Women workers of the Orient''
*(1927) New Paths for old purposes *(1929) Mabel Cratty *Famous Libraries of the WorldGoodReads website, ''Famous Libraries of the World''
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* * * 1885 births 1969 deaths 20th-century American memoirists American Protestant missionaries American social sciences writers Protestant missionaries in China Protestant missionaries in Japan Female Christian missionaries American expatriates in China {{Christianity-bio-stub