Instructions in Gardening for Ladies (Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture) - Softcover

Loudon, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108055656 ISBN 13: 9781108055659

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Jane Loudon (1807-58), the Mrs Beeton of the Victorian gardening world, wrote several popular books on horticulture and botany, specifically for women. She is also remembered as the author of The Mummy! - an early work of science fiction - and as editor of The Ladies' Companion. Her knowledge of plants and gardening was gained from her husband, the landscape designer John Claudius Loudon, whom she married in 1830, and from attending the lectures of the botanist John Lindley. Her notes from these were published as articles in John Loudon's Gardener's Magazine. This book, first published in 1840, was an immediate success, selling 1,350 copies on the day of publication and more than 200,000 in total. Written in the approachable style typical of her works, it covers all the elements of horticulture, and helped to encourage many Victorian women to take up gardening as a hobby.

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Book Description

Jane Loudon (1807-58), the Mrs Beeton of the Victorian gardening world, wrote several popular books on the subject, specifically for women. This work, first published in 1840, was an immediate success, selling 1,350 copies on the day of publication and more than 200,000 in total.

About the Author

Jane C. Webb Loudon was born in 1807 and turned to writing to earn an income when her father died. She wrote The Mummy, a novel set in the 22nd century, thus helping to establish the fashion for science fiction writing. She married garden designer John C Loudon in 1831 and quickly became an expert gardener and gardening writer. She died in 1858.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1108055656
• ISBN 13: 9781108055659
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424