Jeanne Jardine

Active from the mid-1890s to the early 1910s, Jeanne Jardine was a British domestic writer and columnist whose work focused on food, household management, and everyday home life. She contributed to periodicals including The Vegetarian, The Ladies' Field, and Woman, writing for readers who wanted useful advice rather than grand theory.

She is best known for The Best Vegetarian Dishes I Know (1910), a cookbook remembered for its practical tone and clear instructions. Her early published work also included a series of vegetarian recipe articles called Capital Vegetarian Dishes, showing that plant-based cooking was an important part of her writing from the start.

Although not much seems to be recorded about her personal life, her surviving work gives a strong sense of her strengths as an author: concise explanations, a domestic focus, and an interest in making cooking and household routines simpler for her readers.