[3][2] Her artistic career commenced in the late 1940s when she was educated at Harvard University's Radcliffe College, where she read art history and the theory and practice of drawing and painting.
[5] Jospé's marriage and the birth of her three children stopped her from working as a creative artist until she enrolled on a part-time degree in professional photography at the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster).
Jospé used the skills she learnt to photograph her life as a housewife and mother over the past quarter of a century; her obituarist in The Times described them as "icons of domesticity with an undercurrent of irony" and "profoundly personal and psychologically eerie.
"[7] Simon Fenwick in The Independent described her as "stylish and articulate" and said several prominent members of the Analytical Psychology Club of London entertained by her family at her home.
[2] Her obituarist in The Times noted Jospé was attracted to "an aesthetic of precision, order and simplicity" in an desire "to learn when to stop and how not to over-elaborate or take a picture too far into the realm of the overwrought and fussy.