House, published in 1917. During the First World War, Peel ran a Lambeth-based club for the wives of servicemen, and spoke on behalf of the United Workers' Association and the National War Savings Association. She co-directed, with Maud Pember Reeves, the women's service of the Ministry of Food during the voluntary rationing of 1917-8, as well as publicly speaking about economical household food practices. She was editor of the women's page of The Daily Mail after being appointed to the post in 1918 by Lord Northcliffe, though she left the position after being diagnosed with diabetes in 1920. She was awarded an OBE in 1919. After the war, Peel worked towards the improvement of women's domestic lives, sitting on committees addressing domestic service and working-class housing for the Ministry of Reconstruction, as well as committees organised by other organisations. She also became vice-president of the British Women Housewives' Association. Later life and legacy Peel produced memoirs spanning five volumes. Her autobiography, Life's Enchanted Cup: an Autobiography, 1872–1933 was published in 1933. She died in Kensington, London, on 7 August 1934, due to her myocarditis and diabetes, and was survived by her husband. An article in The Times commented on Peel's highly varied career, saying that "her industry was astonishing, for she went down coalmines, inspected prisons, reformatories and factories, examined schools and studied diet for the young, in addition to regular journalism and four novels". The social historian John Burnett called her "the doyenne of writers on domestic economy". References External links A Year in Public Life, Mrs. C. S. Peel, 1919. Hosted by Archive.org 1868 births 1934 deaths English magazine editors English newspaper editors English food writers 20th-century English novelists English autobiographers English memoirists British women's rights activists Officers of the Order of the British Empire People from Herefordshire Deaths from diabetes Women food writers British women memoirists Women newspaper editors English women novelists 20th-century English women writers Women cookbook writers English women non-fiction writers Women magazine editors Women's page journalists