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Margaret Grieve (1858–1941)

Autor de A Modern Herbal

7 Obras 1,170 Miembros 9 Reseñas

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Créditos de la imagen: A picture of Maude Grieve taken in the early 1900s.

Obras de Margaret Grieve

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Nombre legal
Grieve, Sophia Emma Magdalene (Neé Law)
Otros nombres
Grieve, Margaret
Grieve, Maud
Grieve, M.
Grieve, Sophia Emma Magdalene
Law, Sophia Emma Magdalene (birth name)
Fecha de nacimiento
1858-05-04
Fecha de fallecimiento
1941-12-21
Género
female
Nacionalidad
UK
Lugar de nacimiento
75 Upper Street, Islington, London
Lugar de fallecimiento
Royston, Hertfordshire
Lugares de residencia
Chalfont St. Peter in Buckinghamshire, England
Ocupaciones
herbalist
writer
Biografía breve
Sophie Emma Magdalene Grieve known as Maud. Born 4 May 1858 75 Upper Street, Islington, London. Died 21 December 1941 Royston, Hertfordshire. Herbalist, plants women, writer. Lived in Chalfont St Peter, Bucks, from 1906 to 1938 where she created a perennial nursery. At the outbreak of the First World War she turned the nursery into a herb farm to address the shortage of supplies of vital medicinal plants. She was a founder member of the short lived National Herb Growing Association and later president of The British Guild of Herb Growers During the war she also started The Whins Medicinal and Commercial Herb School. After the war she continued her work promoting the benefits of herbs, writing over three hundred pamphlets or monographs on individual plants. These were edited by Hilda Leyel and were the main source of information in what has become Maud’s legacy A Modern Herbal which was published 1931

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When I first became interested in herbs fifty years ago, a very knowledgeable lady who was about the age I am now told me “what you need is Grieve’s Modern Herbal”. It has taken me all the intervening time to add it to my shelf, I am ashamed to say. It remains the classic text.
 
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AgedPeasant | 2 reseñas más. | Jan 21, 2021 |
“By Mrs M. Grieve, practical herb expert, principal of the Whins Medicinal Herb School and Farm, Chalfont St Peter, Bucks. Specially written to assist members of the British Guild of Herb Growers.
 
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AgedPeasant | Nov 6, 2020 |
I was fortunate enough to find both this and volume 2 for a very cheap price at a used bookstore. The price was more than worth it. Discusses the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties of a large variety of herbs, beginning with aconite and ending in the H's. The materia medicas have been broken into 2 parts, but the full index is available in both versions. Strangely enough, above the index on each page it doesn't say list of plants, but lists of plates. If anyone could explain this to me, I'd appreciate it.

Overall a very worthy reference aide. Not the one I turn to the most but one I do use quite a bit. Information is not spared on herbs, and each gets at least a page, with tiny text. Sometimes an old poem or piece from an ancient Materia Medica is given as a treat, such as with Culpeper and Gerard. There really aren't many recipes and formulas in these books but the ones given can be useful. For instance, apple butter, Almond butter, Almond milk etc ( much is written on almonds )

I especially enjoyed all the folklore details included here, very nice in rich history. Diagrams adorn many pages, in black and white, all helping the old feel appeal.

A great choice for reference materials, now considered classics
… (más)
 
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ErinPaperbackstash | otra reseña | Jun 14, 2016 |
I was fortunate enough to find both this and volume 2 for a very cheap price at a used bookstore. The price was more than worth it. Discusses the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties of a large variety of herbs, beginning with aconite and ending in the H's. The materia medicas have been broken into 2 parts, but the full index is available in both versions. Strangely enough, above the index on each page it doesn't say list of plants, but lists of plates. If anyone could explain this to me, I'd appreciate it.

Overall a very worthy reference aide. Not the one I turn to the most but one I do use quite a bit. Information is not spared on herbs, and each gets at least a page, with tiny text. Sometimes an old poem or piece from an ancient Materia Medica is given as a treat, such as with Culpeper and Gerard. There really aren't many recipes and formulas in these books but the ones given can be useful. For instance, apple butter, Almond butter, Almond milk etc ( much is written on almonds )

I especially enjoyed all the folklore details included here, very nice in rich history. Diagrams adorn many pages, in black and white, all helping the old feel appeal.

A great choice for reference materials, now considered classics
… (más)
 
Denunciada
ErinPaperbackstash | otra reseña | Jun 14, 2016 |

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Obras
7
Miembros
1,170
Popularidad
#21,987
Valoración
½ 4.4
Reseñas
9
ISBNs
21

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