The Life of Mrs Jordan 2 Volume Set

Volume 1: 1. What is to be expected in these memoirs; 2. Miss Francis arrives at Leeds in July 1782; 3. The year 1783; 4. The ascendancy of Mrs. Siddons; 5. In the recess thinks of her old friends in Yorkshire; 6. King's management; 7. Kemble's management from October 1788; 8. The summer of 1789; 9. Dr Woolcot does justice to Mrs Jordan; 10. History of Drury Lane theatres; 11. The Grand National Theatre; 12. The death of Parsons; 13. Mr Coleman and the re-opening of his Iron Chest; 14. Death of Charles Macklin. Volume 2: 15. Benefits for the family of John Palmer, at Liverpool, and in London; 16. The summer theatre; 17. Season of 1800–1; 18. Decided hostilities of 1801–2; 19. Bannister's administration, or all the talents he could get; 20. The reservoirs of some use at Drury Lane; 21. The young Roscius acts Norval to great houses; 22. The classical season at Drury; 23. Domestic arrangements of Mrs Jordan; 24. Attachments of the Princes; 25. Three distinct sources of calumny; 26. Sir Jonah Barrington's allusion to a distressing event, which he declines to relate; 27. Some reflections on the explanation preceding; 28. The administration to Mrs Jordan's effects.