Maud Grieve
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'''Sophia Emma Magdalene Grieve''' (NeƩ Law)<ref>{{cite book|last=General Register office of England and Wales|title=Births, June Quarter 1858}}</ref> (also known as Margaret, Maude, Maud or simply Mrs. Grieve)<ref>[http://www.librarything.com/author/grievemargaret Margaret Grieve on LibraryThing | Catalog your books online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> (1858-1941)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtl039774.pdf|last=Royal Botanical Gardens|work=Library and Archives Division|accessdate=2008-06-20|format=PDF}}</ref> was the Principal and Founder of [[The Whins Medicinal and Commercial Herb School]] and Farm at [[Chalfont St. Peter]] in [[Buckinghamshire, England]].<ref>[http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/02112107.html Archives Hub: Collection of material relating to Mrs. Maud Grieve, F.R.H.S (fl.1937)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Maud Grieve was a Fellow of the [[Royal Horticultural Society]] with an encyclopedic knowledge of medicinal plants. The training school gave tuition and practical courses in all branches of herb growing, collecting, drying and marketing.
Grieve had an extensive herbal garden in Chalfont St. Peter, and during World War 1 she trained people in the harvesting, drying and preparation of medicinal herbs, to help remedy the shortage of medicinal supplies. In this effort she started publishing informative pamphlets.<ref>[http://www.the-tree.org.uk/BritishTrees/MrsGrieve/mrsgrieve.htm MrsGrieve<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Grieve was President of the [[British Guild of Herb Growers]], and Fellow of the [[British Science Guild]].
==Publications==
To meet a large demand for information on herbal medicines during the [[First World War]], Mrs Grieve started publishing pamphlets on the cultivation of herbs and uses of herbal medicines. These pamphlets were highly regarded by her peers and were eventually published.
Grieve's work "A Modern Herbal" was published in 1931 (ISBN 0-486-22798-7). The book contains medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folklore of herbs from all over the world. The book is still in print and is available online.
'''A Modern Herbal''' was conceived by its editor Mrs. [[Hilda Leyel]] and based on monographs of English herbs written by Mrs. Grieve. Mrs. Leyel added American herbs to Mrs. Grieve's monographs and checked and edited the whole work. Hilda Leyel was the founder of the [[Society of Herbalists]] and for many years its Director. She was instrumental in the re-establishment of herbal medicine in Britain in the 1900s. She was also a practicing herbalist herself.
She also wrote ''Culinary herbs and condiments'' and ''Roses and pot pourri: Plants of sweet scent and their employment in perfumery''.<ref>[http://www.librarything.com/author/grievemargaret Margaret Grieve on LibraryThing | Catalog your books online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Her collections and pamphlets are held by the Special Collections Division of the Edinburgh University <ref>Library: Reference: GB 0237 Dc.3.97/1-4; Dc.3.98; Title: Collection of material relating to Mrs. Maud Grieve, F.R.H.S (fl.1937)</ref> <ref>[http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/02112107.html Archives Hub: Collection of material relating to Mrs. Maud Grieve, F.R.H.S (fl.1937)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==External links==
* [http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/mgmh.html An online version of "A Modern Herbal"].
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