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Mrs Jordan's Profession - The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King (Paperback)
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Mrs Jordan's Profession - The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King (Paperback)
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Mrs Jordan's Profession is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan
by bestselling author Claire Tomalin 'Intelligent, finely made and
wonderfully readable. As gripping as the best fiction' Independent
on Sunday Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her day, Dora
Jordan lived a quite different role off-stage as lover to Prince
William, third son of George III. Unmarried, the pair lived in a
villa on the Thames and had ten children together until William,
under pressure from royal advisers, abandoned her. The story of how
Dora moved between the worlds of the eighteenth-century theatre and
happy domesticity, of her fights for her family and her career
makes a classic story of royal perfidy and female courage. From the
acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles
Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman, this celebrated biography
is one of history's most astonishing untold stories. 'The strangest
and most sensational story Tomalin has told so far. A miraculously
detailed portrait - as brisk, unsentimental, good-humoured and
fairminded as its subject' Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph
'Compelling, shrewd in its judgements, exceptionally well written,
and informed by a vivid sense of the past' John Gross, Sunday
Telegraph 'Fascinating, affecting. A compelling story and Tomalin
tells it with clarity and warmth' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times
Claire Tomalin is the award-winning author of eight highly
acclaimed biographies, including: The Life and Death of Mary
Wollstonecraft; Shelley and His World; Katherine Mansfield: A
Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and
Charles Dickens; Mrs Jordan's Profession; Jane Austen: A Life;
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self; Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man
and, most recently, Charles Dickens: A Life. A former literary
editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times, she is married to
the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.
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