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Clive. Her engagement at Drury Lane lasted till 1809, and she played a large variety of parts. But gradually it came to be recognized that her See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent See also:

lay in comedy, her Lady Teazle, Rosalind and Imogen being specially liked, and such " breeches " parts as See also:

William in Rosina. During the rebuilding of Drury Lane she played at the Haymarket; she transferred her services in 1811 to Covent See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden. Here, in 1814, she made her last appearance on the London stage, and the following See also:

YEAR

year, at See also:

MARGATE

Margate, retired altogether.

Mrs Jordan's private See also:

LIFE

life was one of the scandals of the See also:

period. She had a daughter by her first manager, in Ire-See also:

LAND

land, and four See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children by See also:

Sir See also:

Richard See also:

Ford, whose name she See also:

BORE

bore for some years. In 1790 she became the See also:

MISTRESS

mistress of the See also:

DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

CLARENCE, DUKES OF

Clarence (afterwards William IV.), and bore him ten children, who were ennobled under the name of Fitz Clarence, the eldest being created See also:

EARL

earl of See also:

Munster. In 1811 they separated by mutual consent, Mrs Jordan being granted a liberal See also:

ALLOWANCE (from "allow,' derived through 0. Fr. alouer from the two Lat. origins adlaudare, to praise, and allocare, to assign a place; so that the English word combined the general idea of "assigning with approval")

allowance. In 1815 she went abroad. According to one See also:

story she was in danger of imprisonment for See also:

DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt. If so, the debt must have been incurred on behalf of others—probably her relations, who appear to have been continually borrowing from her—for her own See also:

PERSONAL

personal debts were very much more than covered by her savings. She is generally understood to have died at St See also:

CLOUD (from the same root, if not the same word, as " clod," a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages for a mass or lump; it is first applied in the usual sense in the late 13th century; the Anglo-Saxon chid is only used in the sense of " a ma

Cloud, near See also:

Paris, on the 3rd of See also:

JULY

July 1816, but the story that under an assumed name she lived for seven years after that date in See also:

England finds some See also:

CREDENCE, or CREDENCE TABLE

credence. See See also:

James Boaden, Life of Mrs Jordan (1831); The See also:

GREAT

Great I'Legitimates (183o); See also:

John Genest, Account of the Stage; See also:

Tate See also:

Wilkinson, The Wandering Patentee; See also:

MEMOIRS

Memoirs and Amorous Adventures by See also:

Sea and Land of See also:

King William IV. (183o) ; The Georgian Era (1838).

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