WXDA Person Record #454

Jordan

Subject of study

Person Details

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15 Oct 1785Breeches Actor
"Mrs. Jordan is accounted an excellent breeches figure, and has often played Patrick in the Poor Soldier, with infinite success, on the York theatre."
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29 Dec 1785Breeches Actor
"A seaman being asked how he liked Mrs. Jordan in breeches? answered, 'I like her rigging well, and I like her working well; for, do you see, she never missed s…
Drury Lane. "She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not."
28 Mar 1786Breeches Actor
"The Jordan": "A light blue sattin waistcoat and breeches, a pink and silver robe, and black hat and white feather, set off her pretty little figure to infinite…
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2 Sept 1786Breeches Actor
"Among other novelties, it is said, that Mrs. Jordan means to give the town, we are to have her in Sir Harry Wildair, a character that has not successfully been…
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3 Oct 1786Breeches Actor
"Dodd was resolved not to be behind-hand with the Jordan in finery on Saturday--witness the blue sattin waistcoat and breeches--which by the bye, not a grocer's…
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23 Nov 1786Breeches Actor
"The sincere admirer of Mrs. Jordan, who, in the Morning Post of Friday last, recommends to that lady an appearance in Macheath, betrays more partiality than ta…
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2 Sept 1801Breeches Actor
For an upcoming production at the Drury Lane Theatre: "Mrs. JORDAN has been requested to assume male attire, in Artabanes."