She dedicated Gardening for Ladies to her husband
. Its title-page mentions The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals and the introduction is dated 21 May. It was hugely successful, selling 1,350 copies on the very...
Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Loudon
Jane Webb
married a Scotsman, John Claudius Loudon
, who was forty-six and already strikingly successful as a horticulturalist and an advocate for and designer of public open spaces.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John Claudius Loudon
Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Loudon
John Claudius Loudon
(1783-1843) saw a review of Jane Webb's second book, borrowed it from a circulating library, reviewed it himself, and sought out the acquaintance of the author, whom he assumed to be male...
Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Loudon
From 1841 John Claudius Loudon
suffered from increasingly frequent bouts of serious illness, particularly inflammation of the lungs. He was confined to bed for six weeks while travelling that year, and had serious attacks in...
Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Loudon
John Claudius Loudon
, husband of JL
, died at home at 3 Porchester Terrace, London, of chronic bronchitis, the very day after hearing that a group of creditors had rejected his proposals to...
Literary responses
Jane Loudon
JL
later called her own work a strange wild novel.
Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life, 1961.
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Meanwhile it was well reviewed in The Literary Gazette, and John Claudius Loudon
, alerted by that review, praised it in The Gardener's...
Literary responses
Jane Loudon
John Claudius Loudon
announced The Ladies' Flower-Garden (disclaiming any prejudice in favour of his wife's work) as elegant . . . no less beautiful than it is useful.
Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life, 1961.
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Material Conditions of Writing
Jane Loudon
In this painful year of her husband
's last illness, Mrs Loudon worked on and published the first of two volumes of The Ladies' Flower-Garden: Ornamental Perennials (another in her series on types of plants)...
Material Conditions of Writing
Jane Loudon
JL
moved a little away from gardening with the first book she was able to turn her mind to writing after her husband
died: The Lady's Country Companion: or How to Enjoy a Country Life...
Reception
Maria Elizabetha Jacson
John Claudius Loudon
quoted from MEJ
's work in his Encyclopaedia of Gardening in 1834, but thirty years after Jacson's third edition, Jane Loudon
criticised the work as too intellectual.
Percy, Joan. “Maria Elizabeth Jacson and her ’Florist’s Manual’”. Garden History, Vol.
20
, No. 1, pp. 45-56.
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Shteir, Ann B. “Botanical Dialogues: Maria Jacson and Women’s Popular Science Writing in England”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 3, pp. 301-17.
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Residence
Jane Loudon
It is not clear when Jane Webb moved from the Birmingham area to live in London, at at 21 Norton Street, off Great Portland Street. But in view of her years of writing for...
Textual Production
Jane Loudon
JL
overhauled and improved her husband
's An Encyclopaedia of Gardening, the work which had first established his reputation in 1822. It had already gone through many editions and enhancements to reach its present massive condition.
Elborough, Travis. “Hidden Corners: Park Life”. The London Library Magazine, No. 38, pp. 18-21.
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Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life, 1961.
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Textual Production
Jane Loudon
From the time of her marriage JL
worked on her husband
's publications, notably The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement, which he had launched in 1826 with an issue that...
Textual Production
Jane Loudon
The Ladies' Companion to the Flower-Garden: Being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens and shrubberies; with full directions for their culture is a systematically-ordered reference book, small but important...
Textual Production
Jane Loudon
The same year saw the posthumous publication of Self-Instruction for Young Gardeners, Foresters, Bailiffs, Land-Stewards, and Farmers by John Claudius Loudon
, incorporating a Short Account of his life and writings by Jane Loudon
...
Timeline
1827
Jane Webb
published The Mummy: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, a dystopia set in a technology-crazed society populated by robots, featuring steamships and a dirigible; Webb was later, as Jane Loudon an influential...
1838
John Claudius Loudon
's The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion appeared in volume form (after being serialised over two years).
Texts
Loudon, Jane, and John Claudius Loudon. “A Short Account of the Life and Writings of John Claudius Loudon”. Self-Instruction for Young Gardeners, Foresters, Bailiffs, Land-Stewards, and Farmers, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845.
Loudon, John Claudius. An Encycpaedia of Gardening. Editor Loudon, Jane, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850.
Loudon, John Claudius, and Jane Loudon. In Search of English Gardens. Editor Boniface, Priscilla, Century, 1990.
Boniface, Priscilla, John Claudius Loudon, and Jane Loudon. “Introduction”. In Search of English Gardens, Century, 1990, pp. 9-18.
Loudon, John Claudius. The Gardener’s Magazine. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green.
