Jocelyn Mary Catherine Toynbee reached her 75th birthday on 3 March 1972. Scholar of Newnham College, Cambridge, from 1916–20; Classical Tutor at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1921–24; Classical Lecturer at Reading University from 1924–27; Fellow, Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics at Newnham from 1927–51; Classical Lecturer in the University of Cambridge from 1931–51; Lawrence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge from 1951–62; Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge; she has throughout her career been very closely connected with the British School at Rome, as a student, as a member of the Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters, and from 1954–59 as Chairman of the Faculty. The bibliography that follows comes not only as a tribute to a distinguished scholar but also as a token of the affection and admiration in which she is held by her many friends, among them her colleagues and former pupils.

There can be few living students of the history and monuments of classical Rome who have not at some time been influenced directly or indirectly by her work. Starting from the central themes and monuments, she has steadily enlarged her horizons to include the farthest frontiers of the Empire, responding with as much sympathy and acumen to the fumbling products of some Romano-British apprentice as to the masterpieces of the artists at the imperial court.