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Excerpt from Mrs. Jordan: Child of Nature Here we do not get Captain, later Colonel, Bland, nor the nine children, indeed the story is shorn of half its romance. But it is time now to come to the actually ascertainable facts. There seems to be no reason to doubt that Grace Phillips was, as the author of the Public and Private Life and Bosden both assert, one of the three daughters of a Welsh clergyman. All three may have embraced the theatrical life, we know that two did. In the winter season of 1756-7 Thomas Sheridan, father of Richard Brinsley, was manager of the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. Among the new players whom he then introduced to the Dublin public were Grace and her sister, of whom we only hear under the name of Miss M. Phillips. Both appear toward the end of 1756 in The Fair Penitent (grace playing Lavinia, and M. Callista) and in The Conscious Lovers. Sheridan re-engaged them for the 1757-8 season, and early in 1758 we find Grace as Desdemona to the Othello of Tate Wilkinson, whom Sheridan had now taken into his company. Grace and Wilkinson also appeared together in jane Shore and Tom Thumb. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.