num_pages: 448
description: 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".
language: English
title: Mrs. Jordan's Profession
titlecomplete: Mrs. Jordan's Profession
genres: 20th Century, History, Womens, Georgian, Biography Memoir, 18th Century, Regency, Biography, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 278
publisher: Penguin UK