Josceline Dimbleby
{{short description|British cookery writer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| name = Josceline Dimbleby
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| birth_name = Josceline Rose Gaskell
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1943|02}}
| birth_place = Witney, Oxfordshire, England
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| education = Cranborne Chase School
| occupation = Food writer, broadcaster
| spouse = {{marriage|David Dimbleby|1967|1993|end=divorced}}
| parents =
| children = 3, including Henry Dimbleby and Kate Dimbleby
| relations = Sir William Montagu-Pollock (stepfather)
Percy Hague Jowett (grandfather)
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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.joscelinedimbleby.com/ |title=Josceline Dimbleby – Home |website=Joscelinedimbleby.com |access-date=2016-05-19}}
Early life and education
Dimbleby was born in 1943.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/time-and-place-a-mystery-room-and-a-haunting-portrait-t9rmdts0bd2|title=Time & Place: A mystery room and a haunting portrait|date=28 March 2004|access-date=1 July 2018|via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}{{cite book|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/45256673|title=Party pieces : special recipes to celebrate the Queen's silver jubilee, 1952-1977|first1=Josceline|last1=Dimbleby|first2=Julia|last2=Fryer|first3=Crafts Advisory Committee|last3=Britain)|date=1 July 1977|publisher=London (12 Waterloo Place, SW1Y 4AU) : Crafts Advisory Committee|isbn=9780903798174|access-date=1 July 2018|via=Trove}} 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.{{cite book|author1=Charles Kidd|author2=Christine Shaw|title=Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BDIZAQAAIAAJ|access-date=1 July 2018|year=2007|publisher=Debrett's|isbn=978-1-870520-80-5|page=86}} In 1948, her mother Barbara Jowett married again, to Sir William Montagu-Pollock.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-william-montagu-pollock-1508776.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-william-montagu-pollock-1508776.html |archive-date=2022-06-14 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Sir William Montagu-Pollock|website=Independent.co.uk |date=5 October 1993|access-date=1 July 2018}}
Dimbleby was educated at Cranborne Chase School,{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/best-days-of-their-lives-542825.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/best-days-of-their-lives-542825.html |archive-date=2022-06-14 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Best days of their lives?|work=The Independent|author=McLellea, Amy|date=7 October 2004|access-date=10 June 2020}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/a-profound-secret-by-josceline-dimbleby-567605.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/a-profound-secret-by-josceline-dimbleby-567605.html |archive-date=2022-06-14 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=A Profound Secret by Josceline Dimbleby|website=Independent.co.uk |date=26 March 2004|access-date=1 July 2018}} 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)[https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/may/17/cookbooks-for-food-lovers-who-are-nearly/ "Cookbooks For Food Lovers Who Are Nearly Vegetarians"]. The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/media-families-26-the-dimblebys-1243741.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/media-families-26-the-dimblebys-1243741.html |archive-date=2022-06-14 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Media families: 26. The Dimblebys|website=Independent.co.uk |date=4 August 1997|access-date=1 July 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3575059/A-family-business.html|title=A family business|date=6 April 2002|access-date=1 July 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.joscelinedimbleby.com/}}
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Category:English television presenters
Category:People educated at Cranborne Chase School
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
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