Background
Eaton was born in Columbus, Ohio.
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Eaton was born in Columbus, Ohio.
Eaton was a supporter of women"s rights since at least her college years, giving her first public suffragist speech soon after she finished college.
She was a suffragist and feminist/
She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College in 1908 and a Master of Arts degree from Ohio State University in 1910. In 1915 she co-authored, along with Bertha Morton Stevens, Commercial Work and Training for Girls, which examined the harsh working conditions of women for that time period. In an article in Harper"s Weekly in August 1915 she argued that modern inventions, such as electricity, washing machines, and typewriters, were the "best friend" of women, not suffrage nor education.
By the late 1920s she was becoming a recognized writer
She was also an editor for the children"s magazine Story Parade. She continued writing for feminist periodicals such as Aging with Attitude Bulletin and Woman"s Journal.
Her strong feminist views were readily apparent in a November 1915 article she wrote for The Masses:
"The woman"s magazine is the savior of society, man"s best friend, the final hope of our chivalric civilization. Woman"s ambitions, her independence, the assertion of her own free personality are gradually but certainly inhibited by a few years of such reading".
Her writing, which included many biographies for young adults, has sometimes been thought "melodramatic" and to have "bordered on the overblown", but her biography of Mohandas Gandhi, Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword (1950, a 1951 Newbery Honor book) "was written in a more muted and understated style".
She was given the 1959 Ohioana Award for her 1958 young adult biography of Mark Twain, America"s Own Mark Twain. She died in Central Valley, New New York Her papers are held at the University of Minnesota Library, the Children"s Literature Research Collections.
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She also wrote at least one article for The Masses, a periodical published from 1911–1917 which had socialist, feminist, and free-love writings.