During the Second World War she was for some time Oxfordshire Women's Land Army County Secretary.
[3] Hole's many books were aimed at a popular audience and have been described as being “characterised by their gentle lucidity and common sense”.
[1] She wrote introductory works on ghosts[4] and witchcraft[5] but is best known for her works on traditional British folk custom; which have been praised for focusing on how customs are performed in the present day, rather than speculating on their "remote origins and lost meanings".
For example, in the early 1960s, she acted as joint-editor of European Folktales, published in Copenhagen in 1963 for the Council of Europe.
[9] In an appreciation by Katharine Briggs, Hole was described as being "one of the last of the nineteenth-century cultured ladies...who never went to College", but nevertheless were renowned for their expertise and knowledge in their particular fields.