Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King [Paperback]

Claire Tomalin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 7, 1995

Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her day, Dora Jordan played a quite different role off-stage as lover to the future king, William IV, third son of George III. In fact, Dora bore no less than ten children and the couple lived happily in a villa on the Thames until William bowed to pressure and abandoned her. Making full use of Dora's letters to William, Claire Tomalin vividly re-creates the royal, political and theatrical worlds of late eighteenth-century England. The story of how Dora moved between stage and home, of how she battled for her family and her career makes a classic tale of royal perfidy and womanly courage. 'Intelligent, finely made and wonderfully readable. As gripping as the best fiction' - Jan Dalley, "Independent on Sunday".

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About the Author

Claire Tomalin was born in London in 1933. She has worked in publishing and journalism all her life, becoming literary editor first of the New Statesman and then of the Sunday Times, which she left in 1986. She is the author of, among other books: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley and His World Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman and the extraordinarily successful biography of Samuel Pepys. Other books written for Penguin are: Jane Austen: A Life and a collection of memoirs entitled Several Strangers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade (September 7, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140159231
• ISBN-13: 978-0140159233
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,672,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)