Goddess of the Green Room

THE BITTERSWEET ADVENTURES OF THE REGENCY THEATRE'S BEGUILING COMIC GENIUS

Few people knew of the abuse and indignities that pursued enchanting Dorothy Jordan when she fled from Ireland to seek a new life in England. Even fewer suspected the troubles concealed by her glittering triumphs in Richard Sheridan's Drury Lane Theatre.

But behind the success that brought the world to her feet, and her celebrated love affair with the Prince Regent's young brother, the dashing Duke of Clarence, lay heartbreak and a gallant struggle to provide for her family.

All the scintillating splendor of the Regency period sparkles in this tender new episode in Jean Plaidy's wonderful Georgian Saga. But it is the poignant, private joys and sorrows of Dorothy Jordan--whom destiny thrust so close to the throne and so infinitely far away-- that is so memorable. Young Mrs. Jordan is one of Jean Plaidy's most beguiling heroines.