L. Grace Dibble
(Lucy) Grace Dibble (1902-1998) was a British teacher, traveller and travel writer. She wrote as L. Grace Dibble. Life 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. She gained a University of Cambridge Diploma in Geography, followed by an honours degree in geography from the University of London. 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. She died on 3 September 1998. Works 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 1902 births 1998 deaths British travel writers Alumni of Homerton College, Cambridge British women travel writers People from Basingstoke People from Bearsted