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Josceline Dimbleby

Josceline Dimbleby

British cookery writer

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]

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Early life and education

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

  • 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

She has three children with her former husband, the broadcaster David Dimbleby, including Henry Dimbleby and Kate Dimbleby.[9][10]

References

  1. [1]
    "Josceline Dimbleby – Home". Joscelinedimbleby.com. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  2. [2]
    "Time & Place: A mystery room and a haunting portrait". 28 March 2004. Retrieved 1 July 2018 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  3. [3]
    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.
  4. [4]
    Charles Kidd; Christine Shaw (2007). Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008. Debrett's. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-870520-80-5. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  5. [5]
    "Obituary: Sir William Montagu-Pollock". Independent.co.uk. 5 October 1993. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  6. [6]
    McLellea, Amy (7 October 2004). "Best days of their lives?". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  7. [7]
    "A Profound Secret by Josceline Dimbleby". Independent.co.uk. 26 March 2004. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  8. [8]
    "Cookbooks For Food Lovers Who Are Nearly Vegetarians". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  9. [9]
    "Media families: 26. The Dimblebys". Independent.co.uk. 4 August 1997. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  10. [10]
    "A family business". 6 April 2002. Retrieved 1 July 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
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