After she was married she set out to educate herself in her husband's area of expertise: botany. She attended lectures given by John Lindley
, first professor of botany at London University
, and took...
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Jane Loudon
What had first interested John Claudius Loudon in Jane Webb had been less her literary skill than her ingenuity in imagining technologies of the future. They were both improvers. From the time of her marriage...
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30 April 1829: John Lindley gave his inaugural lecture as...
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30 April 1829
John Lindley
gave his inaugural lecture as the first professor of botany at the newly established London University
.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
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1845: Nathaniel Ward and John Lindley successfully...
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1845
Nathaniel Ward
and John Lindley
successfully lobbied Parliament to repeal the tax on glass in order to lower the cost of home conservatories.
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
