In a painful interview with William Longman
, head of the publishing firm
, JL
learned that sales of her husband
's books had plummeted in the six years or so since his death, and...
Wealth and Poverty
Jane Loudon
John Claudius Loudon
was comfortably off at the time of his marriage, though he had lost a lot of money around 1815 from the mismanagement of a banker. He lost money again with an over-ambitious...
Travel
Jane Loudon
JL
and her husband
made a quick trip around gardens in Surrey and Berkshire.
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89-91
Travel
Jane Loudon
JL
and her husband
travelled from London to Sheffield and Derby together; the estates they visited on this trip included Kedleston Hall and Chatsworth (which they liked better than on their previous visit).
Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life.
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Travel
Jane Loudon
JL
set out with her husband
and daughter
on their first tour abroad, to visit gardens in and en route to Paris. They took it comparatively easily since John Claudius Loudon was in great...
Travel
Jane Loudon
JL
and her husband
set out to travel in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire.
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189-90
Travel
Jane Loudon
Jane
, John Claudius
, and little Agnes Loudon
set off for Scotland, travelling by train this time, where they spent the better part of two months.
Loudon, John Claudius, and Jane Loudon. In Search of English Gardens. Editor Boniface, Priscilla, Century.
203
Travel
Jane Loudon
The Loudons
travelled west, to look at gardens in Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. They had already made a foray out of London that year, for John Claudius
to recuperate at Brighton from...
Travel
Jane Loudon
The year after her marriage JL
set out with her husband from Bayswater on the first of the horticultural tours which they took together (and which were already a habit of John Claudius Loudon
)...
Travel
Jane Loudon
Although she was pregnant, JL
set out with her husband
on a three-month tour of houses and gardens a little closer to home: in Middlesex, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Hampshire.
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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
...
Textual Production
Jane Loudon
JL
, as J. W. L., made her first appearance in the columns of her husband
's Gardener's Magazine, writing on Weights and Measures in Use at Covent Garden Market.
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Textual Production
Jane Loudon
JL
issued a book for young people that had been hard to write, Glimpses of Nature during a Visit to the Isle of Wight, a commission finished on 30 November the previous year, the...
Timeline
1827: Jane Webb published The Mummy: A Tale of...
Women writers item
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...
Building item
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 et al. “Introduction”. In Search of English Gardens, Century, 1990, pp. 9-18.
Loudon, John Claudius. The Gardener’s Magazine. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green.
