Dramatic Essays
, ed. 1894, p. 82) agree that she failed, perhaps, as the latter suggests, because she was so "perpetually employed" in "broad and romping characters."
In private life Mrs. Jordan was chiefly known as the mistress of the Duke of Clarence, to whom she bore ten children. She died at St. Cloud, July 3, 1816.
The play acted at Covent Garden, March 10, 1814, was Sheridan's
Trip to Scarborough
, which is a close adaptation of Vanbrugh's
Relapse
. The performance is thus described in the
Courier
, March 11, 1814: