John Claudius 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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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)...

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...

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...

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.