Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall

Jane Margaret Fearnley-Whittingstall (née Lascelles)[1] (born 1939 in Kensington, London) is a writer and garden designer with a diploma in landscape architecture. She won two gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show.[2]

Personal life

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Daughter of Colonel John Hawdon Lascelles OBE of the King's Royal Rifle Corps and Janet Hamilton Campbell Kidston,[3] Fearnley-Whittingstall and her husband, Robert Fearnley-Whittingstall, of a landed gentry family formerly of Watford and Hawkswick, Hertfordshire,[4] have two children: Sophy and Hugh, the celebrity chef. They have six grandchildren.[citation needed]

Career

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Fearnley-Whittingstall gained a Diploma in Landscape Architecture from Gloucestershire College of Art and Design in 1980 and has designed numerous gardens in the UK and abroad.

From 2005 to 2007 she wrote a weekly column about family life, in The Times. She has also written for The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Oldie, Woman's Weekly, The Garden, The English Garden and Gardens Illustrated.[citation needed]

Books

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Fearnley-Whittingstall has published the following books:[5]

  • Rose Gardens: Their History and Design (Chatto and Windus 1989)
  • Historic Gardens: A Guide to 160 British Gardens of Interest (Webb and Bower 1990)
  • Ivies (Chatto and Windus 1992)
  • Gardening Made Easy: A Step-By-Step Guide to Planning, Preparing, Planting, Maintaining and Enjoying Your Garden (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1995)
  • Garden Plants Made Easy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1997)
  • Peonies - the Imperial Flower (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999)
  • The Garden: an English Love Affair (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2002)
  • The Good Granny Guide: Or How to Be a Modern Grandmother (Short Books Ltd 2005) (illustrated by Alex Fox)
  • The Good Granny Diary (Short Books Ltd 2006) (illustrated by Alex Fox)
  • The Good Granny Cookbook (Short Books Ltd 2007)
  • The Good Granny Companion (Short Books Ltd 2008)
  • For Better for Worse - a light-hearted guide to wedded bliss (Short Books 2010), also published as 'Happily Ever After' (Marble Arch Press New York 2013)
  • The Ministry of Food - Thrifty wartime ways to feed your family today (Hodder & Stoughton 2010)
  • The Pocket Book of Good Grannies (Short Books 2011)

References

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  1. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, vol. 2, ed. Peter Townend, 1969, Fearnley-Whittingstall formerly of Watford and Hawkswick pedigree
  2. ^ "Ireland Game and Country Fair Markree Castle". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-09-02.
  3. ^ "No. 37761". The London Gazette. 15 October 1946. p. 5137.
  4. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, vol. 2, ed. Peter Townend, 1969, Fearnley-Whittingstall formerly of Watford and Hawkswick pedigree
  5. ^ List of publications at Amazon
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