Jane Loudon
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Standard Name: Loudon, Jane
Birth Name: Jane Wells Webb
Used Form: Jane Webb
Used Form: J. W. L.
While still an adolescent Gardening for Ladies, and a series of books about different kinds of plants, which are distinguished only by subtitle.
published tales and verse; next, in 1827, came a highly unusual science-fiction horror novel. After marrying a horticulturalist she participated in his writing career with work on his gardening magazine and his accounts of travelling in search of gardens to explore and assess. She also pursued her own related line with improving stories about a child naturalist, and with a flow of works, 1839-55, designed to encourage and inform women gardeners. Several of her titles are sufficiently like each other to be confusing, including her best-known, Timeline
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, Jane, and John Gloag. “A Short Account of the Life and Writings of John Claudius Loudon”. Mr. Loudon’s England, Oriel Press, 1970, pp. 182-19.
Loudon, Jane. Agnes; or, the Little Girl who could Keep her Promise. Harvey and Darton, 1839.
Loudon, John Claudius. An Encycpaedia of Gardening. Editor Loudon, Jane, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850.
Loudon, Jane. Botany for Ladies. John Murray, 1842.
Loudon, Jane. Botany for Schools and Young Persons. George Bell, 1841.
Loudon, Jane. British Wild Flowers. William Smith, 1846.
Loudon, Jane. Conversations upon Comparative Chronology. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830.
Loudon, Jane. Domestic Pets. Grant and Griffith, 1851.
Loudon, Jane. Facts from the World of Nature. Grant and Griffith, 1848.
Loudon, Jane. Gardening for Ladies. 1840.
Loudon, Jane. Glimpses of Nature. Grant and Griffith, 1844.
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, Jane. My Own Garden. Keerby and Son, 1855.
Loudon, Jane. Prose and Verse. R. Wrightson, 1824.
Loudon, Jane. Stories of a Bride. Henry Colburn, 1829.
Loudon, Jane. The Amateur Gardener’s Calendar. Longman, 1847.
Loudon, Jane. The Entertaining Naturalist. H. G. Bohn, 1843.
Loudon, Jane. The Entertaining Naturalist. 1850.
Loudon, Jane. The History of Africa. H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830.
Loudon, Jane. The Ladies’ Companion to the Flower-Garden. W. Smith, 1841.
Loudon, Jane. The Ladies’ Companion: At Home and Abroad. Bradbury and Evans.
Loudon, Jane. The Ladies’ Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals. William Smith, 1840.
Loudon, Jane. The Ladies’ Flower-Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants. W. Smith, 1841.