Josceline Dimbleby
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February 1943 (age 82)
Josceline Dimbleby | |
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| Born | Josceline Rose Gaskell February 1943 (age 82) 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]
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)
