Odd Union
David Cannadine, 20 October 1994
Mrs Jordan’s Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King
by Claire Tomalin.
Viking, 415 pp., £18, October 1994,0 670 84159 5 Show More
by Claire Tomalin.
Viking, 415 pp., £18, October 1994,
“... Cruickshank, Rowlandson and Dent; and portrayed by Romney, Beechey, Hoppner, Matthew Peters and John Russell. Nor has she been entirely forgotten by posterity. To be sure, she was not even mentioned by name in Percy Fitzgerald’s two-volume life of King William IV, published in 1884. But she merited an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, there ... ”