
Writer and gardener
Jane Loudon
The novelist who wrote the first popular gardening books for women.
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The life
1807–1858Born Birmingham, England
Jane Loudon wrote The Mummy! (1827), an early science-fiction novel, before she married the garden writer John Claudius Loudon. She went on to write gardening books for women, among them The Ladies’ Flower-Garden, illustrated with colour plates. Our lily card comes from her work.
