Editing Dorothea Jordan (section)

=== Richard Daly ===
She had an affair with [[Richard Daly (actor)|Richard Daly]], who was manager of Dublin's Crow Street Theatre and then of Smock Alley. Daly was married, and she had an illegitimate child with him:
* [[Frances Alsop|Frances Daly]] (also called Fanny; born in September 1782; she later changed her name to Frances Bettesworth in 1806 and married Thomas Alsop in 1807; she died 2 June 1821).<ref>Separated from her husband, she became an actress like her mother and died (probably from an overdose of [[laudanum]]) in America in 1821. [https://books.google.com/books?id=mjeImcc9rGwC&dq=frances+daly+1782+dorothea+ford&pg=PA259 Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, Edward A. Langhans: ''A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and others Stage Personnel in London'', vol. 8: ''Hough to Keyse'', p. 259.]; [https://books.google.com/books?id=DAqh7z7OYW0C&dq=frances+daly+1782&pg=PA112 Wendy C. Nielsen: ''Women Warriors in Romantic Drama'', Chapter IV, p. 112.] [retrieved 4 December 2014]; [http://imagesearch.library.illinois.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/actors&CISOPTR=1990&CISOBOX=1&REC=6 ''Portrait of Mrs. Frances Bettesworth Alsop, ca. 1817'' in: Library of University of Illinois at Urbania-Champaign.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211020108/http://imagesearch.library.illinois.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Factors&CISOPTR=1990&CISOBOX=1&REC=6 |date=11 December 2014 }} [Retrieved 5 December 2014]</ref>

Jordan's work with Richard Daly helped establish her as an actress in Dublin until the two separated and she left for England.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Thespian dictionary; or, Dramatic biography of the eighteenth century; containing sketches of the lives, productions, &c., of all the principal managers, ...|date=3 May 2010|publisher=Printed by J. Cundee for T. Hurst; etc., etc.|language=en|hdl=2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t4zg6kj6s?urlappend=%3Bseq=145}}</ref>

She then went to work for the theatre company operated by [[Tate Wilkinson]]. It was at this point she adopted the name Mrs. Jordan – a reference to her escape across the [[Irish Sea]], likened to the [[River Jordan]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sergeant|first1=Philip Walsingham|url=https://archive.org/details/mrsjordanchildof00sergrich|title=Mrs. Jordan: Child of Nature|date=1913|publisher=Hutchinson & Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/mrsjordanchildof00sergrich/page/52 52]|language=en}}</ref> The name "Mrs Jordan" was also reportedly given to her by Richard Daly for "motherly reasons", soon after she gave birth to their first illegitimate child.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Thespian dictionary; or, Dramatic biography of the eighteenth century; containing sketches of the lives, productions, &c., of all the principal managers, ...|year=1802|publisher=Printed by J. Cundee for T. Hurst; etc., etc.|language=en|hdl=2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t4zg6kj6s?urlappend=%3Bseq=145}}</ref> She appeared at Wilkinson's York Circuit theatres, including [[The Theatre, Leeds]], where she complained of uncomfortable working conditions.<ref name="Leodis">[http://www.leodis.net/discovery/discovery.asp?pageno=&page=2003218_251720608&topic=2003219_253704250&subsection=2003625_449382961 Leodis, Discovering Leeds: The Theatre] Retrieved 17 December 2013</ref>