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British cookery writer
Josceline Dimbleby
BornJosceline Rose Gaskell
February 1943 (age 81)
Witney, Oxfordshire, England
EducationCranborne Chase School
Occupation(s)Food writer, broadcaster
Spouse David Dimbleby ​ ​(m. 1967; div. 1993)​
Children3, including Henry Dimbleby and Kate Dimbleby
RelativesSir 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.

Early life and education

Dimbleby was born in 1943. 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. In 1948, her mother Barbara Jowett married again, to Sir William Montagu-Pollock.

Dimbleby was educated at Cranborne Chase School, 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. In 2004, Dimbleby published A Profound Secret, about May Gaskell's life.

Selected publications

  • Cooking for Christmas (1978)
  • Marvellous Meals with Mince (1982)
  • A Traveller's Tastes (1986)
  • The Practically Vegetarian Cookbook (1994)
  • 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.

References

  1. "Josceline Dimbleby – Home". Joscelinedimbleby.com. Retrieved 2016-05-19.
  2. "Time & Place: A mystery room and a haunting portrait". 28 March 2004. Retrieved 1 July 2018 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  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. 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. "Obituary: Sir William Montagu-Pollock". Independent.co.uk. 5 October 1993. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  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. ^ "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. "Cookbooks For Food Lovers Who Are Nearly Vegetarians". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  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. "A family business". 6 April 2002. Retrieved 1 July 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.

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