L. Grace Dibble
(Lucy) Grace Dibble (1902-1998) was a British teacher, traveller and travel writer. She wrote as L. Grace Dibble.[1]
Life
[edit]Lucy Grace Dibble was born on 3 October 1902 in Basingstoke. The family moved to Kent when she was a child, eventually moving to a house in Bearsted, Mount Pleasant, that had earlier belonged to the cricketer Alfred Mynn. She was educated at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls before training as a teacher at Homerton College, Cambridge.[1] She gained a University of Cambridge Diploma in Geography, followed by an honours degree in geography from the University of London.[2]
Dibble taught in Winnipeg, Canada, Poona, India and in various colleges in Nigeria. Upon retirement to Broadstairs Kent, she embarked upon a new career as a travel writer.[3]
She died on 3 September 1998.
Works
[edit]- Return tickets, 1968
- Return tickets to Scandinavia, 1982
- Return tickets to Yugoslavia, 1984
- Return tickets here and there, 1988
- No return tickets!, 1989
- Return tickets to Africa, 1992
- Return tickets in pictures for armchair globetrotters, 1996
- Return tickets to sacred places, 1996
References
[edit]- ^ a b Brothers, Barbara; Gergits, Julia M., eds. (1999), British Travel Writers, 1940-1997, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 204, Detroit: Gale Research, pp. 30–
- ^ Avril Maddrell (2011). Complex Locations: Women's Geographical Work in the UK 1850-1970. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-1-4443-9958-5.
- ^ People: Grace Dibble, Homerton College, 2018. Accessed 6 July 2020.
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