Carlotta Addison

Stage appearances included leading roles in original productions of plays by T. W. Robertson, W. S. Gilbert, H. J. Byron and Arthur Wing Pinero.

Later that year she created the role of Adina in the musical burlesque Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack, by W. S. Gilbert, at the St James's Theatre.

[2] She later joined the company of the New Royalty Theatre, and in February 1868 appeared in Daddy Grey by Andrew Halliday, as Jessie Bell, the central figure of the play.

[3] Later the same year she joined the company of Squire Bancroft and his wife Marie Wilton at the Prince of Wales's Theatre and appeared in a revival of Society, by T. W. Robertson, as Maud Hetherington.

A reviewer in The Athenaeum (9 October 1875) wrote: "So concentrated and intense was the manner in which she displayed feeling, without going outside the bounds of social custom, that a high position might reasonably be predicted for her as an exponent of realistic drama.