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,
“... early 20th-century lives, her correspondence with the Duke of Clarence was edited and published by Arthur Aspinall, and in 1965 Brian Forthergill produced a lengthy and appreciative study of Mrs Jordan as an actress. Why, then, has Claire Tomalin, a biographer who excels in the recovery of the lives of lost women, sought to tell again a story which has already ... ”