Mrs Jordan's Profession
The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
8 August 2012
Summary
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 III. 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 IV - 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241963296 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024196329X |
| Author: | Claire Tomalin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 8 August 2012 |
| Weight: | 337g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 30mm |
About The Author
Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin has been literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times. She is the author of seven highly acclaimed literary biographies, including Samuel Pepys, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year award, and the international bestseller, Charles Dickens- A Life. She is married to the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn.
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