Peggy Makins

Peggy Makins (1916-2011) was an English agony aunt, who wrote for Woman magazine under the pen name Evelyn Home.

She was born in Hammersmith, London, England, in 1916.[1]

She took over the column in Woman at the age of 21, having previously been its sub-editor, and continued to write it until retirement.[1]

She appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 8 May 1988.[2] She also contributed regularly to Thought For The Day on the BBC Home Service.

She died on 8 December 2011.[1]

Bibliography
  • —— (1975). The Evelyn Home Story. Collins. ISBN 978-0002112239.
  • —— (1977). Evelyn Home's New Handbook of Marriage. Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0091286002.
  • —— (1979). Thoughts, Prayers, Reflections. BBC Books. ISBN 978-0563176343.
gollark: While strictly speaking you can use Rust and even `rustc` without `cargo`, having it as a first-class thing is EXTREMELY NICE.
gollark: "hmm yes I will have a program generate a shell script which generates a makefile or something" - INSANE PEOPLE
gollark: I honestly *do not understand* why people thought they were better ways to do things than *nice* tools like, say, `cargo`.
gollark: I've had to try and compile some programs using the GNU build tools, and they seem like horrible hacks.
gollark: No, that's quite bad.

References
  1. "Magazine agony aunt with independent streak". Henley Standard. 28 August 2012. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  2. "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Peggy Makins". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 18 August 2014.


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