[1] She was described as a delightful singer and displayed a comic talent which made her "an amazing favourite" with the public, but she also attracted scandal in the press for love affairs with her admirers, and trying to break free from her father's guardianship.

However, by 1783 she was reported to have a begun a new affair, although the man's identity is unclear as the newspapers give several possible names for him, mentioning an "Oriental Diamond Mongerer", an unnamed "sea captain" as well as a Mr Rumbold, who had been banished to India by his father for his debts and who arranged for her to accompany him.

In 1783, she performed operatic parts in Calcutta, to tremendous applause, and her benefit night brought in "the astonishing sum of 12,000 rupees.

[4] She was a passenger on the packet ship Nancy, (whose captain, John Haldane, was also reported to be her lover) when it wrecked and sank off the Isles of Scilly on 4 March 1784.

The newspaper accounts of her death and how the body had been found "floating in her shift" with an infant at her bosom made her a tragic figure for the English press.