Jane Wells Webb Loudon(1807-1858)
Jane Wells Webb, earned her living through writing after the death of her father left her in poverty at age 17. Her first book was a romantic work of science fiction called The Mummy, a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, published in 1827. John Claudius Loudon, landscape gardener and publisher of horticultural and architectural books, reviewed the book, and determined to meet the author, whom he determined to be a man. The two met in February 1830 and married later that year. The Ladies’ Flower Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants was published in 1841, and contains 58 illustrations lithographed after Mrs. Loudon’s paintings by Day and Haghe.
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