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    The Dutchess of Drury Lane
    The Dutchess of Drury Lane
    The Dutchess of Drury Lane
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    The Dutchess of Drury Lane

    Written by Freda Lightfoot

    Narrated by Karen Cass

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    Growing up in a poverty-stricken, fatherless household, Dorothy Jordan overcame her humble beginnings to become the most famous comic actress of her day. Beginning her career on the Dublin stage, she moved on to the playhouses of Leeds and York before achieving fame performing at Sheridan’s famous theater on Drury Lane.

    It was there that Dorothy caught the eye of the Duke of Clarence, later to become King William IV. Her twenty-year relationship with the Duke was one of great happiness and domesticity, producing ten children. But ultimately Dorothy’s generous nature was her undoing and she was to be cruelly betrayed by the man she loved.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMagna Story Sound
    Release dateApr 1, 2016
    ISBN9781785021275
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    Freda Lightfoot

    Sunday Times bestselling author Freda Lightfoot hails from Oswaldtwistle, a small mill town in Lancashire. Her mother comes from generations of weavers, and her father was a shoe repairer; she still remembers the first pair of clogs he made for her. After several years of teaching, Freda opened a bookshop in Kendal, Cumbria. And while living in the rural Lakeland Fells, rearing sheep and hens and making jam, Freda turned to writing. She wrote over fifty articles and short stories for magazines such as My Weekly and Woman’s Realm, before finding her vocation as a novelist. She has since written over forty-five novels, mostly historical fiction and family sagas. She now lives in Spain with her own olive grove, and divides her time between sunny winters and the summer rains of Britain.

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