Jeanette Eaton (November 30, 1886 – February 19, 1968) was an American writer of children's books, primarily biography and history.
[3] 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.
[2] 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".
[4] 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".