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Mrs Jordan's Profession
  • Published: 8 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241963296
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $60.00
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Mrs Jordan's Profession

The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King





The story of the love between a prince and a famous actress

Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her generation, Dora Jordan played a quite different role offstage as the mistress of one of the sons of George lll. Dora bore him ten children, and they lived in quiet happiness in Bushy Park on the Thames until the unexpected news arrived of his ascendancy to the throne as William lV - at which point he was forced to abandon her.
Claire Tomalin vividly recreates the political, theatrical and royal worlds of the late eighteenth century. The story of how Dora moved between stage and home, of how she battled for career and family, makes for a classic tale of royal perfidy and womanly courage.

  • Published: 8 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780241963296
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $60.00
Categories:

About the author

Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin was literary editor of the New Statesman then the Sunday Times before leaving to become a full-time writer. Her first book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, won the Whitbread First Book Award, and she has since written a number of highly acclaimed and bestselling biographies. They include Jane Austen: A Life, The Invisible Woman, a definitive account of Dickens' relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, which won three major literary awards, and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002. In the highly acclaimed Charles Dickens: A Life, she presents a full-scale biography of our greatest novelist. She is married to the writer Michael Frayn.

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