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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Wealth and Poverty | Jane Loudon | 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... |
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. Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life. 54 |
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)... |
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... |
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... |
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. 20 Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life. 48 |
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under John Claudius Loudon |
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... |
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
)... |
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... |
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. Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life. 57-8 Loudon, John Claudius, and Jane Loudon. In Search of English Gardens. Editor Boniface, Priscilla, Century. 89-91 |
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... |
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