Burton's romance stories were first serialized in newspapers with great success before Grosset and Dunlap published them in low-cost hard-cover editions.

[2] Donald Willard writes in the Boston Globe from 1927 that Beatrice Burton is among the favorites of young female stenographers, "innocent of the world and starry-eyed."

Even so, Burton's serials and novels were distributed and read widely, giving her productions "a ready made audience in every city and town throughout the country.

[5][6] She lived with her father Alfred (a newspaper editor), mother Minnie, and siblings Harry and Audley.

Beatrice divided her time between writing books and magazine articles, assisting her husband with editing the newspaper, and raising their three children, who were born in 1917,[10] 1921 and 1922.