Theodora FitzGibbon

model Photographer actress cookery writer

October 21, 1916 (age 74)

Born on October 21, 1916 in London. lieutenant is said that she received cooking lessons from the former Queen Natalie of Serbia at a finishing school in Paris. Age 18 she went on stage in repertory theatre in Birmingham and Coventry and joined a touring company, the English Players, in France. She appeared in Anthony Asquith"s film Freedom Radio (1941) and acted on the stage in London on the West End. She also modelled for a fashionable couturier, Robert Traquair. She met the photographer and surrealist painter Peter Rose Pulham (1910–1956) in Paris, and began an affair. Through him she met many important figures of the Parisian art world. Balthus, Cocteau, Dali and Picasso. In London she met the young painters Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, John Minton and John Banting. The marriage lasted fifteen years.

Theodora FitzGibbon

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model Photographer actress cookery writer

Background

Daughter of John Archibald Rosling and Alice Winfred Hodgins. She travelled widely with her father in India, Europe and the Middle E.

Education

Theodora was educated at a number of convents, including the Sacre Coeur in Bruges and Street Joseph"s, Hendon.

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Born on October 21, 1916 in London. lieutenant is said that she received cooking lessons from the former Queen Natalie of Serbia at a finishing school in Paris. Age 18 she went on stage in repertory theatre in Birmingham and Coventry and joined a touring company, the English Players, in France.

She appeared in Anthony Asquith"s film Freedom Radio (1941) and acted on the stage in London on the West End.

She also modelled for a fashionable couturier, Robert Traquair. She met the photographer and surrealist painter Peter Rose Pulham (1910–1956) in Paris, and began an affair.

Through him she met many important figures of the Parisian art world. Balthus, Cocteau, Dali and Picasso.

In London she met the young painters Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, John Minton and John Banting.

The marriage lasted fifteen years.

Achievements

Notable other books include the encyclopaedic The Food of the Western World (1976) which took fifteen years to write and included recipes from thirty-four countries, lieutenant won the Glenfiddich Special Gold Medal in 1976, and Eat Well and Live Longer (1968).

Membership

She was one of the founding members of the Irish Food Writers" Guild and became the Guild"s first president

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the Prix; Choucroutre First Prize; Glenfiddich Special Gold Medal