John Claudius 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 ...

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...

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.

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)...

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...

JL later called her own work a strange wild novel. Meanwhile it was well reviewed in The Literary Gazette, and John Claudius Loudon , alerted by that review, praised it in The Gardener's...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...