# Mrs Jordan's Profession

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- Authors: [Claire Tomalin](https://www.bookquiver.com/claire-tomalin)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4193-319-1
- Published: 2003-12-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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.