Maud Grieve: A Herbalist in War Time

I’ve covered three British herbalists so far on this podcast, and each has made a notable contribution to the development of botany and apothecary practice in Britain. This week, we’re going to meet Maud Grieve, whose contribution took a different form.

Yes, she wrote a lot about plants. She wrote A Modern Herbal, in fact. Yet she also contributed to the wartime efforts of the First World War in the realm of medicinal plants.

She’s perhaps not as well-known as the other three herbal writers I’ve featured: Elizabeth Blackwell, William Turner, and Nicholas Culpeper. She didn’t illustrate her herbal, like Blackwell. Nor did she translate Latin texts into English, like Turner or Culpeper.

But she did get people growing–and using–their own herbs. Let’s go to meet her in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore!

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