Claire Tomalin

Mrs Jordan's Profession

The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 131mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780241963296
• ISBN-10: 024196329X
• Artikelnr.: 35083125

Autorenporträt

Claire Tomalin was literary editor of the New Statesman then the Sunday Times before leaving to become a full-time writer. Her first book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, won the Whitbread First Book Award, and she has since written a number of highly acclaimed and bestselling biographies. They include Jane Austen: A Life, The Invisible Woman, a definitive account of Dickens' relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, which won three major literary awards, and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002. In the highly acclaimed Charles Dickens: A Life, she presents a full-scale biography of our greatest novelist. She is married to the writer Michael Frayn.