Bella Goodall

[6] In July of the same year, also at the Prince of Wales's, she made a success as a comic Lancastrian housemaid in a new farce, The Mudborough Election.

[9] Her subsequent performances in this period included Byron's classical burlesque, Pandora's Box,[10] Magic Toys at the Prince of Wales's with Marie Wilton,[11] La Vivandière by W. S. Gilbert and the farces, Mr and Mrs White and The Rendezvous.

[12] In pantomime she was "a very dashing and prepossessing Princess Eglantine" in a version of Valentine and Orson for the 1867 Christmas season,[13] and she successfully took a travesti (male) role in Boucicault's The Flying Scud at the Holborn Theatre, playing Lord Woodbie,[14] followed by another trousers role, the valet Max, in Gilbert's burlesque, The Merry Zingara, a parody of The Bohemian Girl.

[16] In 1870 she appeared as "a spirited St Patrick" in F. C. Burnand's Sir George and a Dragon,[17] in which her dancing was "a marvellous tour de force – perhaps more vigorous than graceful, but her Irish jig is decidedly one of the most attractive features in the burlesque.

"[18] During her time with the Strand company the repertoire mixed burlesques and straight plays, including comedies such as Up in the World, by Arthur Sketchley, in which she appeared in 1871 as a riotous page-boy.