Mrs Jordan's profession

Dora Jordan, a celebrated comic actress, led a complex life off-stage as the lover of William IV, the future king. Despite bearing ten children and living happily for years, William eventually succumbed to royal pressure and abandoned her. This biography, drawing on Dora's letters, vividly reconstructs the royal, political, and theatrical landscape of late eighteenth-century England, highlighting Dora's struggle to balance her career and family against a backdrop of royal perfidy and her own remarkable courage.