John Claudius Loudon

Standard Name: Loudon, John Claudius

Indexed Name: John C. Loudon

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
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. 54 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. 306n11
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...
Travel	Jane Loudon	JL and her husband made a quick trip around gardens in Surrey and Berkshire. Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life. 61 Loudon, John Claudius, and Jane Loudon. In Search of English Gardens. Editor Boniface, Priscilla, Century. 89-91
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...
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. 64-5 Loudon, John Claudius, and Jane Loudon. In Search of English Gardens. Editor Boniface, Priscilla, Century. 175
Literary responses	Jane Loudon	JL later called her own work a strange wild novel. Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life. 33 Meanwhile it was well reviewed in The Literary Gazette, and John Claudius Loudon , alerted by that review, praised it in The Gardener's...
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...
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...
Travel	Jane Loudon	JL and her husband set out to travel in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire. Loudon, John Claudius, and Jane Loudon. In Search of English Gardens. Editor Boniface, Priscilla, Century. 189-90

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 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.