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 has won two gold medals at Chelsea Flower Show.[2]

Personal life

Daughter of Colonel John Hawdon Lascelles, of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, OBE,[3] she 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.

Career

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.[5]

Books
  • 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)
  • The Ministry of Food - Thrifty wartime ways to feed your family today (Hodder & Stoughton 2010)
  • The Pocket Book of Good Grannies (Short Books 2011)

Source: [6]

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gollark: Because they're the one who has to keep it connected to their body for 9 months or so.
gollark: I don't think that a child is meaningfully, by any definition which is actually sane or relevant, part of a parent's body, or composed of them, and I don't see why "so both genetic contributors get to decide whether the mother keeps it around" follows.
gollark: If they agree to it, sure.
gollark: It seems like you're (implicitly?) doing that weird motte-and-bailey thing where you go "by some strained technical definition, you are part of your parent's body" and then go "since you're now obviously part of their body, they get authority over you".

References
  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. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37761/supplement/5137/data.pdf
  4. Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, vol. 2, ed. Peter Townend, 1969, Fearnley-Whittingstall formerly of Watford and Hawkswick pedigree
  5. Tessa Boase (2007). "Just Like Mother Used to Make", Daily Mail Weekend Magazine, 1 September 2007.
  6. List of publications at Amazon
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