Mildred Maddocks Bentley (Bentley, Mildred Maddocks) was an American author and editor known for her writing on home economics. Public information about her life is limited: her birth and death years, education, and the details of her career cannot be confirmed, and the identity that can currently be established is chiefly that of an American home-economics writer and editor. Her writing centered on cooking and household management and was addressed to ordinary family readers, discussing everyday meal planning, kitchen practice, and housekeeping methods. Her style is practical and her language plain and accessible, serving the contemporary American readership's demand for knowledge about domestic life. Her representative work, The Consumer Viewpoint, examines household consumption and purchasing from the consumer's perspective, reflecting her approach of combining home-economics knowledge with daily life. One of her works is held in this collection; though limited in number, it is enough to show the character of her writing in the field of home-economics and cookery books.
