Jane Wells Webb Loudon
English science fiction writer and botanist (1807-1858) · Writers · Died at 50
Jane Loudon, also known as Jane C. Loudon, or Mrs. Loudon in her publications, was an English writer and early pioneer of science fiction. She wrote before the term was coined, and was discussed for a century as a writer of Gothic fiction, fantasy or horror.
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Plate from The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials (1843)
"Knysana lily (Cyrtanthus obliquus), Cyrtanthus clavatus as C. uniforus, and Scented firelilly (Cyrtanthus odorus).” The ladies’ flower garden of ornamental perennials from The Collection of Botanical Photographs and Illustrations of Swallowtail Garden Seeds.
"Verbascums". The Ladies' Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials from the Collection of Botanical Photographs and Illustrations of Swallowtail Garden Seeds (Volume 2, 1844)
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She also created the first popular gardening manuals, as opposed to specialist horticultural works, reframing the art of gardening as fit for young women. She was married to the well-known horticulturalist John Claudius Loudon, and they wrote some books together, as well as her own very successful series. Loudon is famous for her gothic novel The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (1827).
