Constance Dorothy Evelyn Peel OBE (née Bayliff; 27 April 1868 – 7 August 1934) was an English journalist and writer, known for her non-fiction books on cheap household management and cookery.
She was the seventh child of Richard Lane Bayliff, a military captain, and his wife Henrietta née Peel.
In December 1894, Bayliff married the electrical engineer Charles Steers Peel, her second cousin, and the couple moved to Dewsbury.
Between 1903 and 1906, Peel edited the periodicals Hearth and Home, Woman and Myra's Journal, and authored a series of cookery books.
[2] Peel changed career after losing a child, opening a hat shop with Ethel Kentish, her friend.
[2] 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.
[2] 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".