Title: Mrs Jordan's profession
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.
Subjects: Biography, Kings and rulers, Actresses, Actors, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Fiction, general, Great britain, biography
Places: Great Britain
People: Dorothy Jordan (1761-1816), William IV King of Great Britain, William IV King of Great Britain (1765-1837)