She was a pioneer as a woman to make botanical information accessible to those outside the field, and to further her ideas and her output in society, she became a self-taught botanical artist. Jane became responsible for introducing gardening to middle-class society through her easy to understand gardening manuals. Finally, after her marriage to horticulturist and landscape designer, John Loudon, she changed to botanical writing.
At age 20 she would publish the first fictional book about mummies, which introduced a new genre to fiction. She explored cultures and gained familiarity in several languages, which would benefit her later on in her travels. She would come to have three major, and contrasting, intellectual achievements. He died penniless in 1824, when Jane Webb was seventeen.
He sold the house in Edgbaston and moved to another of his properties, Kitwell House at Bartley Green, six miles away. On their return, his business faltered and his fortune was lost to excessive speculation. After the death of her mother in 1819, she travelled in Europe for a year with her father, learning several languages. (Sources vary on her place of birth: according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), she was born at Ritwell House, which is possibly the same as Kitwell House at Bartley Green). Jane Webb was born in 1807 to Thomas Webb, a wealthy manufacturer from Edgbaston, Birmingham and his wife. 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. 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 wrote before the term was coined, and was discussed for a century as a writer of Gothic fiction, fantasy or horror. Loudon) was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction. Jane Wells Webb Loudon (19 August 1807 – 13 July 1858) (also known as Jane C. Plate from The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals (1842)
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