Josceline Dimbleby
Josceline Dimbleby | |
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Born | Josceline Rose Gaskell February 1943 (age 81) Witney, Oxfordshire, England |
Education | Cranborne Chase School |
Occupation(s) | Food writer, broadcaster |
Spouse | |
Children | 3, including Henry Dimbleby and Kate Dimbleby |
Relatives | Sir William Montagu-Pollock (stepfather) Percy Hague Jowett (grandfather) |
Josceline Rose Dimbleby (née Gaskell; born 1943) is a British cookery writer. She has written seventeen cookery books, and was cookery correspondent of The Sunday Telegraph for 15 years.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Dimbleby was born in 1943.[2][3] She is the daughter of Thomas Josceline Gaskell (1906-1982) and Barbara Jowett (died 1998), whose father Percy Hague Jowett was principal of London's Royal College of Art.[4] In 1948, her mother Barbara Jowett married again, to Sir William Montagu-Pollock.[5]
Dimbleby was educated at Cranborne Chase School,[6] a former boarding independent school for girls near Tisbury in Wiltshire.
Dimbleby's great-grandmother, May Gaskell, was a "romantic confidante" of the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and a painting of her daughter Amy Gaskell by Burne-Jones is in the collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber.[7] In 2004, Dimbleby published A Profound Secret, about May Gaskell's life.[7]
Selected publications
[edit]- Cooking for Christmas (1978)
- Marvellous Meals with Mince (1982)
- A Traveller's Tastes (1986)
- The Practically Vegetarian Cookbook (1994)[8]
- A Profound Secret (2004)
- Orchards in the Oasis – Recipes, Travels and Memories (2010)
Personal life
[edit]She has three children with her former husband, the broadcaster David Dimbleby, including Henry Dimbleby and Kate Dimbleby.[9][10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Josceline Dimbleby – Home". Joscelinedimbleby.com. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
- ^ "Time & Place: A mystery room and a haunting portrait". 28 March 2004. Retrieved 1 July 2018 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ^ Dimbleby, Josceline; Fryer, Julia; Britain), Crafts Advisory Committee (1 July 1977). Party pieces : special recipes to celebrate the Queen's silver jubilee, 1952-1977. London (12 Waterloo Place, SW1Y 4AU) : Crafts Advisory Committee. ISBN 9780903798174. Retrieved 1 July 2018 – via Trove.
- ^ Charles Kidd; Christine Shaw (2007). Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008. Debrett's. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-870520-80-5. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ "Obituary: Sir William Montagu-Pollock". Independent.co.uk. 5 October 1993. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ McLellea, Amy (7 October 2004). "Best days of their lives?". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
- ^ a b "A Profound Secret by Josceline Dimbleby". Independent.co.uk. 26 March 2004. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ "Cookbooks For Food Lovers Who Are Nearly Vegetarians". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ "Media families: 26. The Dimblebys". Independent.co.uk. 4 August 1997. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ "A family business". 6 April 2002. Retrieved 1 July 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.