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The Life of Mrs Jordan - Including Original Private Correspondence, and Numerous Anecdotes of her Contemporaries (Paperback)
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The Life of Mrs Jordan - Including Original Private Correspondence, and Numerous Anecdotes of her Contemporaries (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century, Volume 2
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The actress Dorothy Jordan (1761 1816), contemporary of Sarah
Siddons, was born in London, one of nine children. Her reputation
as the greatest comic actress of her time was secured upon joining
Sheridan's company at Drury Lane in 1785. Remembered particularly
for cross-dressing roles such as Rosalind in As You Like It and
Viola in Twelfth Night, she brought great charm and spontaneity to
her interpretations. Her life off-stage was equally colourful, and
she was for over twenty years the lover of William, Duke of
Clarence, with whom she had ten children. This two-volume
biography, first published in 1831, was written by her friend James
Boaden (1762 1839), a playwright who later turned to theatrical
biography. In it, he relates the extraordinary and poignant story
of her life from acclaim to obscurity. Volume 2 covers her many
provincial tours, her enforced separation from Clarence, retirement
and self-imposed exile in France.
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