Jane C. Loudon was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction. She wrote before the term was invented, and was discussed for a century as a writer of gothic fiction, fantasy, or horror. She also created the first popular gardening manuals, as opposed to specialist horticultural works, reframing the art of gardening as fit for young women, and contributed to the work of her husband, John Claudius Loudon.
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Published anonymously in three volumes in 1827, when the author was only seventeen years old, The Mummy! is, as she describes it herself, a strange, wild novel that—to an audience nearer her future than when Loudon imagined it—is filled with striking ... SEE MORE