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magazine was based on how she understood her audience and scarcely featured the wealthy and well-known figures since their community was different to others and inaccessible at the time. She featured practical advice for food and established practical departments to demonstrate and test goods in the
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on the role of women in the war. They argued against conscription women into the armed forces and persuaded the Home Office women contributed to the war effort by keeping communities and families united, and the men fighting for their wives and children would be demoralised if they believed their
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magazine in 1937. Grieve was made its associate editor not long after before returning to the position of editor in 1940, which she held until her early retirement in 1962. She led a group of editors who advised the
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post-austerity era. Grieve sought to reach as many women across the United
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She and a friend operated a Pâté making company Dove
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monthly magazine that was first published in July 1937. Grieve became the associate editor of
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