Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall

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

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''. ==Books==

Fearnley-Whittingstall has published the following 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), 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==