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Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Actress and the Prince

by Claire Tomalin · 1994

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In a brilliant piece of detective work, Tomalin—whose book about Nelly Ternan, Charles Dickens's secret mistress, won prizes as the best biography of 1991—has retrieved Dora, her story and her world, from the obscurity of lost letters and unexamined documents. As social history, the tale is irresistible; as a love story with a painful and brutal ending, it is unforgettable.

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adult
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long · 413 pages

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