Mrs Jordan'S Profession Av Claire Tomalin

<p><i>Mrs Jordan''s Profession </i>is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan by bestselling author Claire Tomalin<br><br>''Intelligent, finely made and wonderfully readable. As gripping as the best fiction'' <i>Independent on Sunday</i> <br><br>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 domesticity, of her fights for her family and her career makes a classic story of royal perfidy and female courage.<br><br>From the acclaimed author of <i>Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life </i>and<i> The Invisible Woman</i>, this celebrated biography is one of history''s most astonishing untold stories.<br><br>''The strangest and most sensational story Tomalin has told so far. A miraculously detailed portrait - as brisk, unsentimental, good-humoured and fairminded as its subject'' Hilary Spurling, <i>Daily Telegraph<br></i><br>''Compelling, shrewd in its judgements, exceptionally well written, and informed by a vivid sense of the past'' John Gross, <i>Sunday Telegraph</i><br><br>''Fascinating, affecting. A compelling story and Tomalin tells it with clarity and warmth'' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>Claire Tomalin is the award-winning author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, includin <i>The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft</i>; <i>Shelley and His World</i>; <i>Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens; Mrs Jordan''s Profession; Jane Austen: A Life; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self; Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man</i> and, most recently, <i>Charles Dickens: A Life</i>. A former literary editor of the <i>New Statesman</i> and the <i>Sunday Times</i>, she is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.</p>