John Claudius Loudon

Standard Name: Loudon, John Claudius

Indexed Name: John C. Loudon

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
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
Literary responses	Jane Loudon	John Claudius Loudon announced The Ladies' Flower-Garden (disclaiming any prejudice in favour of his wife's work) as elegant . . . no less beautiful than it is useful. Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life. 64
Travel	Jane 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. Loudon, John Claudius, and Jane Loudon. In Search of English Gardens. Editor Boniface, Priscilla, Century. 203
Dedications	Jane Loudon	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...
Travel	Jane Loudon	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...
Textual Production	Jane Loudon	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...
Family and Intimate relationships	Jane Loudon	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...
Textual Production	Jane Loudon	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 ...
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...

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.