Mrs Jordan's Profession

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Mrs Jordan's Profession

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-02-4196-329-6

ISBN sin guiones: 9780241963296

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 480

Fecha de publicación: 2012-06-21

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Mrs Jordan's Profession

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4193-319-1

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141933191

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 448

Fecha de publicación: 2003-12-04

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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Mrs Jordan's Profession

Claire Tomalin

Primera publicación: 2003-12-04

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.