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29%OFFClaire Tomalin - Mrs Jordan's Profession - 9780241963296 - V9780241963296
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Mrs Jordan's Profession

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Description for Mrs Jordan's Profession Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 480 pages, 16pp inset photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; APB; BGF; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 354.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241963296
SKU
V9780241963296
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-4

About Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin has been literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times. She is the author of seven highly acclaimed literay biographies, including Samuel Pepys, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year award, and the international bestseller, Charles Dickens: A Life. She is married to the novelist and playwright Michael Frayn.

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