She was closely involved with Haslemere Educational Museum which was founded by her grandfather Sir Jonathan Hutchinson and she established and ran a Froebel school in West Sussex for 25 years.
[1] Her early years were spent in an extremely rural environment where she developed a deep understanding of, and love for the natural world, something that would be a feature of her writing and teaching life.
[1] In 1931 Froebel-trained Hutchinson opened Yafflesmead School at the family home in Kingsley Green, near Haslemere, in which for 25 years she provided a Froebel Kindergarten education for boys and girls between 1931 and 1955.
Close friend and editor Penny Hollow wrote: David Kynaston quoted a parent in his book Austerity Britain: A serious naturalist but with a keen sense of fun[2] Margaret Hutchinson included the study of nature in all her teaching.
[8] Dr Evelyn Lawrence, Director of the National Froebel Foundation, said in her foreword to Children as Naturalists: Yafflesmead School closed in 1955 so that Hutchinson could care for her aged parents[2] and was sold in 1957;[9] subsequently she dedicated herself to writing and study.