Always intrigued by Edward Burne-Jones’s portrait of her great-aunt, Amy Gaskell, Josceline Dimbleby’s chance meeting with the painting’s current owner encouraged her to explore the mystery of her own family’s past and the life and death of her beautiful great-aunt. In her search, Dimbleby uncovered a passionate correspondence between Burne-Jones and her great-grandmother, May Gaskell, Amy’s mother, which continued throughout the last six years of the Pre-Raphaelite painter’s life. As she delved deeper into their engrossing lives, questions emerged. What was the deep secret May had confided to Edward? And what was the tragic truth behind Amy’s wayward, wandering life, her strange marriage, and her unexplained early death? Weaving together the threads of this tale, Dimbleby takes us through a turbulent period in English history and visits the most far-flung corners of the Empire. William Morris, Rudyard Kipling, William Gladstone, and prominent members of the Souls also play a part in this sweeping, often funny, and sometimes tragic story. Richly detailed and exquisitely told, May and Amy is a stunning account of hidden love and family secrets.

May and Amy: A True Story of Family, Forbidden Love, and the Secret Lives of May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones

Biographies & Memoirs

Dimbleby, Josceline

Community & Culture

Three Rivers Press

Over 150 creative recipes for today's practically vegetarian way of eating combining poultry and fish with the bounty of vegetables, fruits, pasta, and grains so important to a healthly diet. From fresh salads to stunning desserts, the cookbook showcases the freshest and most nutritious ingredients. 80 full-color photos.

The Practically Vegetarian Cookbook

Random House Value Publishing

A chance encounter with Andrew Lloyd Webber at a summer party sent Josceline Dimbleby on a quest to uncover a mystery in her own family's past. Her great-aunt Amy Gaskell was the subject of a beautiful dark portrait by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, but all that was known about Amy, according to family lore, was that she had 'died young of a broken heart'. In her search, Josceline discovered a cache of unpublished letters from Burne-Jones to her great-grandmother May Gaskell, Amy's mother.They formed a passionate and prolific correspondence, of up to five letters a day, from the last six years of the painter's life. As she read, more and more questions were raised: why did Burne-Jones feel he had to protect May from an overwhelming sadness? What was the deep secret she had confided to him? And what was the tragic truth behind beautiful Amy's wayward, wandering life, her strange marriage and her unexplained early death?

A Profound Secret

Black Swan.

A chance encounter at a summer party sent writer Josceline Dimbleby on a quest to uncover a mystery in her family’s past. After talking with Andrew Lloyd Webber about a beautiful, dark portrait in his art collection, she decided to find out more about the subject of the painting: her great-aunt Amy Gaskell. Dimbleby had always known her great-aunt’s face from this haunted portrait by the well-known Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones, but beyond that and a family rumor that Amy had died young “of a broken heart,” Dimbleby knew little of her female forebears. At the start of her search, Josceline came across a cache of unpublished letters from Burne-Jones to her great-grandmother May Gaskell, Amy’s mother. These letters turned out to be part of a passionate correspondence—adoring, intimate, sometimes up to five letters a day—which continued throughout the last six years of the painter’s life. As she read, more and more questions arose: Why did Burne-Jones feel he had to protect May from an overwhelming sadness? What was the deep secret she had confided to him? And what was the tragic truth behind Amy’s wayward, wandering life, her strange marriage, and her unexplained early death? In piecing together the eventful life of her grandmother, Dimbleby takes us through a turbulent period in history that includes the Boer War, the Great War, and the Second World War and visits the most far-flung corners of the British Empire. The Souls—William Morris, Rudyard Kipling, and William Gladstone—all play a part in this sweeping, often funny, and sometimes tragic story. Above all, it is her infectious enthusiasm for a subject so close to home that makes May and Amy such a compelling and richly entertaining read.

Harmony

Over 150 creative recipes for today's "practically vegetarian" way of eating combining poultry and fish with the bounty of vegetables, fruits, pasta, and grains so important to a healthly diet. From fresh salads to stunning desserts, the cookbook showcases the freshest and most nutritious ingredients. 80 full-color photos.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Vegetarian & Vegan

Random House]

The Josceline Dimbleby Christmas Book

J Sainsbury Plc

'The Cooking Enthusiast is a complete course in cooking. Fifteen chapters contain techniques, background information, and helpful hints to provide everything needed for the cooking enthusiast. Named the best general cookbook at the World Cookbook Fair.
It's easy to use, comprehensive, and utterly reliable. The step by stepillustrations demonstrate exactly what to do; beautiful color photographs showthe result; and clean concise text explains everything needed to know to getimpressive results quickly. Named the best general cookbook at the WorldCookbook Fair.

The Cooking Enthusiast: An Illustrated Culinary Encyclopedia

Cooking Methods

Rutledge Hill Pr

Fabulous recipes for the borderline vegetarian.

Josceline Dimbleby's Almost Vegetarian Cookbook

Websters International Publishers

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Books by Dimbleby, Josceline

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May and Amy: A True Story of Family, Forbidden Love, and the Secret Lives of May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Practically Vegetarian Cookbook

A Profound Secret

May and Amy: A True Story of Family, Forbidden Love, and the Secret Lives of May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The Practically Vegetarian Cookbook

The Josceline Dimbleby Christmas Book

The Cooking Enthusiast: An Illustrated Culinary Encyclopedia

Josceline Dimbleby's Almost Vegetarian Cookbook