https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php?title=Jane_Loudon&feed=atom&action=historyJane Loudon - Revision history2024-03-29T12:38:45ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.2https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php?title=Jane_Loudon&diff=41951&oldid=prevM-westerby at 14:57, September 21, 20212021-09-21T14:57:40Z<p></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}}</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Jane Webb Loudon''' (August 19, 1807&ndash;July 13, 1858) was an English magazine editor, pioneer of science fiction, and writer on gardens and botany. She created some of the first popular gardening manuals and introduced non-specialist readers (particularly women and children) to the notion of gardening as an accessible and enjoyable recreation.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Jane Webb Loudon''' (August 19, 1807&ndash;July 13, 1858) was an English magazine editor, pioneer of science fiction, and writer on gardens and botany. She created some of the first popular gardening manuals and introduced non-specialist readers (particularly women and children) to the notion of gardening as an accessible and enjoyable recreation.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Orphaned at the age of seventeen, Jane Webb turned to writing as a means of supporting herself. A book of poetry published in 1824 was followed by ''The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century,'' a futuristic three-volume novel published anonymously in 1827.<ref> Alan Rauch, ''Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001), 60&ndash;67, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Paul Aldon, “Bowdler Lives: Michigan’s ‘Mummy,’” ''Science Fiction Studies'' 1, no. 23 (March 1996): 123&ndash;30, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/QGBVEG9X view on Zotero].</ref> Among the reviewers impressed by the book’s fantastic visions of future scientific and technological innovations was [[J. C. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Loudon|</del>John Claudius Loudon]], who published an enthusiastic review in ''Gardener’s Magazine'' and subsequently met and married the author. Thereafter, Jane Loudon abandoned fiction and immersed herself in the study of botany, gardening, and horticulture. She attended the public lectures of John Lindley (1799&ndash;1865), Professor of Botany at the University of London, and served as her husband’s research assistant and scribe, accompanying him on trips to country houses and [[pleasure garden]]s scattered throughout England and Scotland.<ref>Heath Schenker, “Women, Gardens, and the English Middle Class in the Early Nineteenth Century,” in ''Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550&ndash;1850'', ed. Michel Conan (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2002), 348&ndash;49, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; John Claudius Loudon, ''In Search of English Gardens: The Travels of John Claudius Loudon and His Wife Jane,'' ed. Priscilla Boniface (Wheathampstead, Herts.: Lennard Publishing, 1987), 12&ndash;13, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EDXJZ5IZ view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, “An Account of the Life and Writings of John Claudius Loudon,” in ''John Claudius Loudon and the Early Nineteenth Century in Great Britain'', ed. Elisabeth MacDougall (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980), 29&ndash;30, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JFBH3ZIU view on Zotero]; John Claudius Loudon, “Hints for Improvements. New Ideas,” ''The Gardener’s Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement'' 3, no. 12 (March 1828): 478&ndash;79, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VB26C3CA view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Orphaned at the age of seventeen, Jane Webb turned to writing as a means of supporting herself. A book of poetry published in 1824 was followed by ''The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century,'' a futuristic<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>three-volume novel published anonymously in 1827.<ref> Alan Rauch, ''Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001), 60&ndash;67, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Paul Aldon, “Bowdler Lives: Michigan’s ‘Mummy,’” ''Science Fiction Studies'' 1, no. 23 (March 1996): 123&ndash;30, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/QGBVEG9X view on Zotero].</ref> Among the reviewers impressed by the book’s fantastic visions of future scientific and technological innovations was [[J. C. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</ins>John Claudius<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">) </ins>Loudon]], who published an enthusiastic review in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the </ins>''Gardener’s Magazine'' and subsequently met and married the author. Thereafter, Jane Loudon abandoned fiction and immersed herself in the study of botany, gardening, and horticulture. She attended the public lectures of John Lindley (1799&ndash;1865), Professor of Botany at the University of London, and served as her husband’s research assistant and scribe, accompanying him on trips to country houses and [[pleasure garden]]s scattered throughout England and Scotland.<ref>Heath Schenker, “Women, Gardens, and the English Middle Class in the Early Nineteenth Century,” in ''Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550&ndash;1850'', ed. Michel Conan (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2002), 348&ndash;49, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; John Claudius Loudon, ''In Search of English Gardens: The Travels of John Claudius Loudon and His Wife Jane,'' ed. Priscilla Boniface (Wheathampstead, Herts.: Lennard Publishing, 1987), 12&ndash;13, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EDXJZ5IZ view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, “An Account of the Life and Writings of John Claudius Loudon,” in ''John Claudius Loudon and the Early Nineteenth Century in Great Britain'', ed. Elisabeth MacDougall (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980), 29&ndash;30, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JFBH3ZIU view on Zotero]; John Claudius Loudon, “Hints for Improvements. New Ideas,” ''The Gardener’s Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement'' 3, no. 12 (March 1828): 478&ndash;79, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VB26C3CA view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Recognizing the need for instructional texts on horticulture and botany addressed to amateurs rather than specialists, Loudon contributed articles on floriculture to ''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The </del>Gardener’s Magazine''. She went on to publish a number of well-received books, including ''Instructions in Gardening for Ladies'' (1840), which sold 1,350 copies the day it was published, and ''The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden'' (1841), which sold over 20,000 copies in nine editions, including an American edition brought out by [[Andrew Jackson Downing]].<ref>Rauch 2001, 61, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, ''Gardening for Ladies; And Companion to the Flower-Garden,'' ed. Andrew Jackson Downing (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VJ3SM523 view on Zotero].</ref> In these and numerous other publications, Loudon promoted gardening as a pursuit uniquely suited to women owing to their experience in using color, texture, and design to beautify their dress and domestic decor.<ref> Grace Kehler, “Gertrude Jekyll and the Late-Victorian Garden Book: Representing Nature-Culture Relations,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 35, no. 2 (2007): 623, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/PWIGV6JB view on Zotero]; Schenker 2002, 349&ndash;56, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; Charles Quest-Ritson, ''The English Garden: A Social History,'' (London: Viking Press, 2001), 180, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/9S7WBZPM view on Zotero]; see also Sarah Dewis, ''The Loudons and the Gardening Press: A Victorian Cultural Industry'' (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UFVDZ2JM view on Zotero].</ref> She countered the notion of women’s incapacity for manual labor with detailed instructions on how tasks such as pruning and mowing became less “laborious and unfeminine” with the right tools, and how even digging could be made easy with “a little attention to the principles of mechanics and the laws of motion.”<ref> Sarah Bilston, “Queens of the Garden: Victorian Women Gardeners and the Rise of the Gardening Advice Text,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 36, no. 1 (2008): 4&ndash;5, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/E9TIU464 view on Zotero].</ref> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Recognizing the need for instructional texts on horticulture and botany addressed to amateurs rather than specialists, Loudon contributed articles on floriculture to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the </ins>''Gardener’s Magazine''. She went on to publish a number of well-received books, including ''Instructions in Gardening for Ladies'' (1840), which sold 1,350 copies the day it was published, and ''The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden'' (1841), which sold over 20,000 copies in nine editions, including an American edition brought out by [[Andrew Jackson Downing]].<ref>Rauch 2001, 61, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, ''Gardening for Ladies; And Companion to the Flower-Garden,'' ed. Andrew Jackson Downing (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VJ3SM523 view on Zotero].</ref> In these and numerous other publications, Loudon promoted gardening as a pursuit uniquely suited to women owing to their experience in using color, texture, and design to beautify their dress and domestic decor.<ref> Grace Kehler, “Gertrude Jekyll and the Late-Victorian Garden Book: Representing Nature-Culture Relations,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 35, no. 2 (2007): 623, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/PWIGV6JB view on Zotero]; Schenker 2002, 349&ndash;56, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; Charles Quest-Ritson, ''The English Garden: A Social History,'' (London: Viking Press, 2001), 180, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/9S7WBZPM view on Zotero]; see also Sarah Dewis, ''The Loudons and the Gardening Press: A Victorian Cultural Industry'' (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UFVDZ2JM view on Zotero].</ref> She countered the notion of women’s incapacity for manual labor with detailed instructions on how tasks such as pruning and mowing became less “laborious and unfeminine” with the right tools, and how even digging could be made easy with “a little attention to the principles of mechanics and the laws of motion.”<ref> Sarah Bilston, “Queens of the Garden: Victorian Women Gardeners and the Rise of the Gardening Advice Text,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 36, no. 1 (2008): 4&ndash;5, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/E9TIU464 view on Zotero].</ref> </div></td></tr>
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A book of poetry published in 1824 was followed by ''The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century,'' a futuristic three-volume novel published anonymously in 1827.<ref> Alan Rauch, ''Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001), 60&ndash;67, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Paul Aldon, “Bowdler Lives: Michigan’s ‘Mummy,’” ''Science Fiction Studies'' 1, no. 23 (March 1996): 123&ndash;30, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/QGBVEG9X view on Zotero].</ref> Among the reviewers impressed by the book’s fantastic visions of future scientific and technological innovations was [[J. C. Loudon|John Claudius Loudon]], who published an enthusiastic review in ''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The </del>Gardener’s Magazine'' and subsequently met and married the author. Thereafter, Jane Loudon abandoned fiction and immersed herself in the study of botany, gardening, and horticulture. She attended the public lectures of John Lindley (1799&ndash;1865), Professor of Botany at the University of London, and served as her husband’s research assistant and scribe, accompanying him on trips to country houses and [[pleasure garden]]s scattered throughout England and Scotland.<ref>Heath Schenker, “Women, Gardens, and the English Middle Class in the Early Nineteenth Century,” in ''Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550&ndash;1850'', ed. Michel Conan (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2002), 348&ndash;49, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; John Claudius Loudon, ''In Search of English Gardens: The Travels of John Claudius Loudon and His Wife Jane,'' ed. Priscilla Boniface (Wheathampstead, Herts.: Lennard Publishing, 1987), 12&ndash;13, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EDXJZ5IZ view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, “An Account of the Life and Writings of John Claudius Loudon,” in ''John Claudius Loudon and the Early Nineteenth Century in Great Britain'', ed. Elisabeth MacDougall (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980), 29&ndash;30, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JFBH3ZIU view on Zotero]; John Claudius Loudon, “Hints for Improvements. New Ideas,” ''The Gardener’s Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement'' 3, no. 12 (March 1828): 478&ndash;79, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VB26C3CA view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Orphaned at the age of seventeen, Jane Webb turned to writing as a means of supporting herself. A book of poetry published in 1824 was followed by ''The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century,'' a futuristic three-volume novel published anonymously in 1827.<ref> Alan Rauch, ''Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001), 60&ndash;67, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Paul Aldon, “Bowdler Lives: Michigan’s ‘Mummy,’” ''Science Fiction Studies'' 1, no. 23 (March 1996): 123&ndash;30, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/QGBVEG9X view on Zotero].</ref> Among the reviewers impressed by the book’s fantastic visions of future scientific and technological innovations was [[J. C. Loudon|John Claudius Loudon]], who published an enthusiastic review in ''Gardener’s Magazine'' and subsequently met and married the author. Thereafter, Jane Loudon abandoned fiction and immersed herself in the study of botany, gardening, and horticulture. She attended the public lectures of John Lindley (1799&ndash;1865), Professor of Botany at the University of London, and served as her husband’s research assistant and scribe, accompanying him on trips to country houses and [[pleasure garden]]s scattered throughout England and Scotland.<ref>Heath Schenker, “Women, Gardens, and the English Middle Class in the Early Nineteenth Century,” in ''Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550&ndash;1850'', ed. Michel Conan (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2002), 348&ndash;49, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; John Claudius Loudon, ''In Search of English Gardens: The Travels of John Claudius Loudon and His Wife Jane,'' ed. Priscilla Boniface (Wheathampstead, Herts.: Lennard Publishing, 1987), 12&ndash;13, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EDXJZ5IZ view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, “An Account of the Life and Writings of John Claudius Loudon,” in ''John Claudius Loudon and the Early Nineteenth Century in Great Britain'', ed. Elisabeth MacDougall (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980), 29&ndash;30, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JFBH3ZIU view on Zotero]; John Claudius Loudon, “Hints for Improvements. New Ideas,” ''The Gardener’s Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement'' 3, no. 12 (March 1828): 478&ndash;79, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VB26C3CA view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Recognizing the need for instructional texts on horticulture and botany addressed to amateurs rather than specialists, Loudon contributed articles on floriculture to ''The Gardener’s Magazine''. She went on to publish a number of well-received books, including ''Instructions in Gardening for Ladies'' (1840), which sold 1,350 copies the day it was published, and ''The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden'' (1841), which sold over 20,000 copies in nine editions, including an American edition brought out by [[Andrew Jackson Downing]].<ref>Rauch 2001, 61, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, ''Gardening for Ladies; And Companion to the Flower-Garden,'' ed. Andrew Jackson Downing (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VJ3SM523 view on Zotero].</ref> In these and numerous other publications, Loudon promoted gardening as a pursuit uniquely suited to women owing to their experience in using color, texture, and design to beautify their dress and domestic decor.<ref> Grace Kehler, “Gertrude Jekyll and the Late-Victorian Garden Book: Representing Nature-Culture Relations,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 35, no. 2 (2007): 623, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/PWIGV6JB view on Zotero]; Schenker 2002, 349&ndash;56, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; Charles Quest-Ritson, ''The English Garden: A Social History,'' (London: Viking Press, 2001), 180, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/9S7WBZPM view on Zotero]; see also Sarah Dewis, ''The Loudons and the Gardening Press: A Victorian Cultural Industry'' (Farnham, Surrey<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, and Burlington, VT</del>: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UFVDZ2JM view on Zotero].</ref> She countered the notion of women’s incapacity for manual labor with detailed instructions on how tasks such as pruning and mowing became less “laborious and unfeminine” with the right tools, and how even digging could be made easy with “a little attention to the principles of mechanics and the laws of motion.”<ref> Sarah Bilston, “Queens of the Garden: Victorian Women Gardeners and the Rise of the Gardening Advice Text,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 36, no. 1 (2008): 4&ndash;5, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/E9TIU464 view on Zotero].</ref> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Recognizing the need for instructional texts on horticulture and botany addressed to amateurs rather than specialists, Loudon contributed articles on floriculture to ''The Gardener’s Magazine''. She went on to publish a number of well-received books, including ''Instructions in Gardening for Ladies'' (1840), which sold 1,350 copies the day it was published, and ''The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden'' (1841), which sold over 20,000 copies in nine editions, including an American edition brought out by [[Andrew Jackson Downing]].<ref>Rauch 2001, 61, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, ''Gardening for Ladies; And Companion to the Flower-Garden,'' ed. Andrew Jackson Downing (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VJ3SM523 view on Zotero].</ref> In these and numerous other publications, Loudon promoted gardening as a pursuit uniquely suited to women owing to their experience in using color, texture, and design to beautify their dress and domestic decor.<ref> Grace Kehler, “Gertrude Jekyll and the Late-Victorian Garden Book: Representing Nature-Culture Relations,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 35, no. 2 (2007): 623, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/PWIGV6JB view on Zotero]; Schenker 2002, 349&ndash;56, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; Charles Quest-Ritson, ''The English Garden: A Social History,'' (London: Viking Press, 2001), 180, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/9S7WBZPM view on Zotero]; see also Sarah Dewis, ''The Loudons and the Gardening Press: A Victorian Cultural Industry'' (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UFVDZ2JM view on Zotero].</ref> She countered the notion of women’s incapacity for manual labor with detailed instructions on how tasks such as pruning and mowing became less “laborious and unfeminine” with the right tools, and how even digging could be made easy with “a little attention to the principles of mechanics and the laws of motion.”<ref> Sarah Bilston, “Queens of the Garden: Victorian Women Gardeners and the Rise of the Gardening Advice Text,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 36, no. 1 (2008): 4&ndash;5, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/E9TIU464 view on Zotero].</ref> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Recognizing the need for instructional texts on horticulture and botany addressed to amateurs rather than specialists, Loudon contributed articles on floriculture to ''The Gardener’s Magazine''. She went on to publish a number of well-received books, including ''Instructions in Gardening for Ladies'' (1840), which sold 1,350 copies the day it was published, and ''The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden'' (1841), which sold over 20,000 copies in nine editions, including an American edition brought out by [[Andrew Jackson Downing]].<ref>Rauch 2001, 61, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, ''Gardening for Ladies; And Companion to the Flower-Garden,'' ed. Andrew Jackson Downing (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VJ3SM523 view on Zotero].</ref> In these and numerous other publications, Loudon promoted gardening as a pursuit uniquely suited to women owing to their experience in using color, texture, and design to beautify their dress and domestic decor.<ref> Grace Kehler, “Gertrude Jekyll and the Late-Victorian Garden Book: Representing Nature-Culture Relations,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 35, no. 2 (2007): 623, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/PWIGV6JB view on Zotero]; Schenker 2002, 349&ndash;56, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; Charles Quest-Ritson, ''The English Garden: A Social History,'' (London: Viking Press, 2001), 180, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/9S7WBZPM view on Zotero]; see also Sarah Dewis, ''The Loudons and the Gardening Press: A Victorian Cultural Industry'' (Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UFVDZ2JM view on Zotero].</ref> She countered the notion of women’s incapacity for manual labor with detailed instructions on how tasks such as pruning and mowing became less “laborious and unfeminine” with the right tools, and how even digging could be made easy with “a little attention to the principles of mechanics and the laws of motion.”<ref> Sarah Bilston, “Queens of the Garden: Victorian Women Gardeners and the Rise of the Gardening Advice Text,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 36, no. 1 (2008): 4&ndash;5, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/E9TIU464 view on Zotero].</ref> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Recognizing the need for instructional texts on horticulture and botany addressed to amateurs rather than specialists, Loudon contributed articles on floriculture to ''The Gardener’s Magazine''. She went on to publish a number of well-received books, including ''Instructions in Gardening for Ladies'' (1840), which sold 1,350 copies the day it was published, and ''The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden'' (1841), which sold over 20,000 copies in nine editions, including an American edition brought out by [[Andrew Jackson Downing]].<ref>Rauch 2001, 61, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, ''Gardening for Ladies; And Companion to the Flower-Garden,'' ed. Andrew Jackson Downing (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VJ3SM523 view on Zotero].</ref> In these and numerous other publications, Loudon promoted gardening as a pursuit uniquely suited to women owing to their experience in using color, texture, and design to beautify their dress and domestic decor.<ref> Grace Kehler, “Gertrude Jekyll and the Late-Victorian Garden Book: Representing Nature-Culture Relations,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 35, no. 2 (2007): 623, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/PWIGV6JB view on Zotero]; Schenker 2002, 349&ndash;56, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; Charles Quest-Ritson, ''The English Garden: A Social History,'' (London: Viking Press, 2001), 180, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/9S7WBZPM view on Zotero]; see also Sarah Dewis, ''The Loudons and the Gardening Press: A Victorian Cultural Industry'' (Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UFVDZ2JM view on Zotero].</ref> She countered the notion of women’s incapacity for manual labor with detailed instructions on how tasks such as pruning and mowing became less “laborious and unfeminine” with the right tools, and how even digging could be made easy with “a little attention to the principles of mechanics and the laws of motion.”<ref> Sarah Bilston, “Queens of the Garden: Victorian Women Gardeners and the Rise of the Gardening Advice Text,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 36, no. 1 (2008): 4&ndash;5, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/E9TIU464 view on Zotero].</ref> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Orphaned at the age of seventeen, Jane Webb turned to writing as a means of supporting herself. A book of poetry published in 1824 was followed by ''The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century,'' a futuristic three-volume novel published anonymously in 1827.<ref> Alan Rauch, ''Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001), 60&ndash;67, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Paul Aldon, “Bowdler Lives: Michigan’s ‘Mummy,’” ''Science Fiction Studies'' 1, no. 23 (March 1996): 123&ndash;30, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/QGBVEG9X view on Zotero].</ref> Among the reviewers impressed by the book’s fantastic visions of future scientific and technological innovations was [[J. C. Loudon|John Claudius Loudon]], who published an enthusiastic review in ''The Gardener’s Magazine'' and subsequently met and married the author. Thereafter, Jane Loudon abandoned fiction and immersed herself in the study of botany, gardening, and horticulture. She attended the public lectures of John Lindley (1799&ndash;1865), Professor of Botany at the University of London, and served as her husband’s research assistant and scribe, accompanying him on trips to country houses and [[pleasure garden]]s scattered throughout England and Scotland.<ref>Heath Schenker, “Women, Gardens, and the English Middle Class in the Early Nineteenth Century,” in ''Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550&ndash;1850'', ed. Michel Conan (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2002), 348&ndash;49, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; John Claudius Loudon, ''In Search of English Gardens: The Travels of John Claudius Loudon and His Wife Jane,'' ed. Priscilla Boniface (Wheathampstead, Herts.: Lennard Publishing, 1987), 12&ndash;13, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EDXJZ5IZ view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, “An Account of the Life and Writings of John Claudius Loudon,” in ''John Claudius Loudon and the Early Nineteenth Century in Great Britain'', ed. Elisabeth MacDougall (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980), 29&ndash;30, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JFBH3ZIU view on Zotero]; John Claudius Loudon, “Hints for Improvements. New Ideas,” ''The Gardener’s Magazine'' 3, no. 12 (March 1828): 478&ndash;79, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VB26C3CA view on Zotero].</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Orphaned at the age of seventeen, Jane Webb turned to writing as a means of supporting herself. A book of poetry published in 1824 was followed by ''The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century,'' a futuristic three-volume novel published anonymously in 1827.<ref> Alan Rauch, ''Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect'' (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001), 60&ndash;67, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Paul Aldon, “Bowdler Lives: Michigan’s ‘Mummy,’” ''Science Fiction Studies'' 1, no. 23 (March 1996): 123&ndash;30, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/QGBVEG9X view on Zotero].</ref> Among the reviewers impressed by the book’s fantastic visions of future scientific and technological innovations was [[J. C. Loudon|John Claudius Loudon]], who published an enthusiastic review in ''The Gardener’s Magazine'' and subsequently met and married the author. Thereafter, Jane Loudon abandoned fiction and immersed herself in the study of botany, gardening, and horticulture. She attended the public lectures of John Lindley (1799&ndash;1865), Professor of Botany at the University of London, and served as her husband’s research assistant and scribe, accompanying him on trips to country houses and [[pleasure garden]]s scattered throughout England and Scotland.<ref>Heath Schenker, “Women, Gardens, and the English Middle Class in the Early Nineteenth Century,” in ''Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550&ndash;1850'', ed. Michel Conan (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2002), 348&ndash;49, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; John Claudius Loudon, ''In Search of English Gardens: The Travels of John Claudius Loudon and His Wife Jane,'' ed. Priscilla Boniface (Wheathampstead, Herts.: Lennard Publishing, 1987), 12&ndash;13, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EDXJZ5IZ view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, “An Account of the Life and Writings of John Claudius Loudon,” in ''John Claudius Loudon and the Early Nineteenth Century in Great Britain'', ed. Elisabeth MacDougall (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980), 29&ndash;30, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/JFBH3ZIU view on Zotero]; John Claudius Loudon, “Hints for Improvements. New Ideas,” ''The Gardener’s Magazine <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement</ins>'' 3, no. 12 (March 1828): 478&ndash;79, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VB26C3CA view on Zotero].</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Recognizing the need for instructional texts on horticulture and botany addressed to amateurs rather than specialists, Loudon contributed articles on floriculture to ''The Gardener’s Magazine''. She went on to publish a number of well-received books, including ''Instructions in Gardening for Ladies'' (1840), which sold 1,350 copies the day it was published, and ''The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden'' (1841), which sold over 20,000 copies in nine editions, including an American edition brought out by [[Andrew Jackson Downing]].<ref>Rauch 2001, 61, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, ''Gardening for Ladies; And Companion to the Flower-Garden,'' ed. Andrew Jackson Downing (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VJ3SM523 view on Zotero].</ref> In these and numerous other publications, Loudon promoted gardening as a pursuit uniquely suited to women owing to their experience in using color, texture, and design to beautify their dress and domestic decor.<ref> Grace Kehler, “Gertrude Jekyll and the Late-Victorian Garden Book: Representing Nature-Culture Relations,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 35, no. 2 (2007): 623, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/PWIGV6JB view on Zotero]; Schenker 2002, 349&ndash;56, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; Charles Quest-Ritson, ''The English Garden: A Social History,'' (London: Viking Press, 2001), 180, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/9S7WBZPM view on Zotero]; see also Sarah Dewis, ''The Loudons and the Gardening Press: A Victorian Cultural Industry'' (Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UFVDZ2JM view on Zotero].</ref> She countered the notion of women’s incapacity for manual labor with detailed instructions on how tasks such as pruning and mowing became less “laborious and unfeminine” with the right tools, and how even digging could be made easy with “a little attention to the principles of mechanics and the laws of motion.”<ref> Sarah Bilston, “Queens of the Garden: Victorian Women Gardeners and the Rise of the Gardening Advice Text,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 36, no. 1 (2008): 4&ndash;5, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/E9TIU464 view on Zotero].</ref> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Recognizing the need for instructional texts on horticulture and botany addressed to amateurs rather than specialists, Loudon contributed articles on floriculture to ''The Gardener’s Magazine''. She went on to publish a number of well-received books, including ''Instructions in Gardening for Ladies'' (1840), which sold 1,350 copies the day it was published, and ''The Ladies Companion to the Flower Garden'' (1841), which sold over 20,000 copies in nine editions, including an American edition brought out by [[Andrew Jackson Downing]].<ref>Rauch 2001, 61, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/F3MR5AIX view on Zotero]; Jane Loudon, ''Gardening for Ladies; And Companion to the Flower-Garden,'' ed. Andrew Jackson Downing (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1843), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VJ3SM523 view on Zotero].</ref> In these and numerous other publications, Loudon promoted gardening as a pursuit uniquely suited to women owing to their experience in using color, texture, and design to beautify their dress and domestic decor.<ref> Grace Kehler, “Gertrude Jekyll and the Late-Victorian Garden Book: Representing Nature-Culture Relations,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 35, no. 2 (2007): 623, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/PWIGV6JB view on Zotero]; Schenker 2002, 349&ndash;56, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZIB8RSSR view on Zotero]; Charles Quest-Ritson, ''The English Garden: A Social History,'' (London: Viking Press, 2001), 180, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/9S7WBZPM view on Zotero]; see also Sarah Dewis, ''The Loudons and the Gardening Press: A Victorian Cultural Industry'' (Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/UFVDZ2JM view on Zotero].</ref> She countered the notion of women’s incapacity for manual labor with detailed instructions on how tasks such as pruning and mowing became less “laborious and unfeminine” with the right tools, and how even digging could be made easy with “a little attention to the principles of mechanics and the laws of motion.”<ref> Sarah Bilston, “Queens of the Garden: Victorian Women Gardeners and the Rise of the Gardening Advice Text,” ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 36, no. 1 (2008): 4&ndash;5, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/E9TIU464 view on Zotero].</ref> </div></td></tr>
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