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Addressed Women Readers
Alois Senefelder
Animal Kingdoms
Arboretum Britannicum
Author_Sarah Dewis
botanical
Botanical Magazine
british
British Library Board
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Cottage Garden
Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine
De Quincys
Derby Arboretum
Eliza Cook's Journal
Eliza Cook’s Journal
engravings
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garden history scholarship
Garden Libraries
Gardener's Magazine
gardeners
Gardener’s Magazine
Home Circle
intelligence
john
La Belle
library
magazine
MDE
Middle Class Gardens
miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Intelligence
nineteenth-century print culture
periodical publishing history
Plant Images
scientific knowledge dissemination
social class mobility
Suburban Gardener
Victorian media studies
Villa Companion
women in horticulture
wood
Wood Engraving
Working Men
Young Gardener
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367882280
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Through close readings of individual serials and books and archival work on the publication history of the Gardener’s Magazine (1826-44) Sarah Dewis examines the significant contributions John and Jane Webb Loudon made to the gardening press and democratic discourse. Vilified during their lifetimes by some sections of the press, the Loudons were key players in the democratization of print media and the development of the printed image. Both offered women readers a cultural alternative to the predominantly literary and classical culture of the educated English elite. In addition, they were innovatory in emphasizing the value of scientific knowledge and the acquisition of taste as a means of eroding class difference. As well as the Gardener’s Magazine, Dewis focuses on the lavish eight-volume Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum (1838), an encyclopaedia of trees and shrubs, and On the Laying Out, Planting, and Managing of Cemeteries (1843), arguing that John Loudon was a radical activist who reconfigured gardens in the public sphere as a landscape of enlightenment and as a means of social cohesion. Her book is important in placing the Loudons’ publications in the context of the history of the book, media history, garden history, urban social history, history of education, nineteenth-century radicalism and women’s journalism.
Sarah Dewis followed a career in design with the BBC. She completed her doctorate at Birkbeck, University of London and is an independent scholar.
