John Claudius 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.

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...

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 )...

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.

JL and her husband made a quick trip around gardens in Surrey and Berkshire.

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).

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...

JL and her husband set out to travel in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire.

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.

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...

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...

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...