Margriet

Margriet is a Dutch feminine given name.

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Margriet (magazine)

Margriet is a Dutch weekly magazine for women of all ages, which publishes articles on fashion, beauty, health, nutrition, relationships, and society. Formerly published by Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen, it is owned and published by Sanoma after the latter took over VNU's magazine division.

Established in 1938, Margriet was at one point the women's magazine with the highest circulation in the country, when it was read by more than a million women every week. For the first four years it was written almost in its entirety by one woman, Alma van Eysden-Peeren. During the late 1960s the magazine, influenced by feminism, became well known for its incorporation of emancipatory content (sometimes controversially so). Its polls among women readers asked questions that at the time were groundbreaking for such a mainstream, large-circulation magazine and it participated in feminist action.

History

First decades: 1938 - 1960s

The magazine's first issue appeared on 30 September 1938, and was published by the Geïllustreerde Pers. The "weekly for women and girls" was at first an appendix for the family magazine De week in beeld, and was not published independently until 1942. The name's origin ("Margriet" is both a girl's and a flower's name in Dutch) is unknown.