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.
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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.
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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...
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
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.