[6] She has been identified as a model for The Golden Stairs, an 1880 painting by Edward Burne-Jones; but some research suggests the face in question is that of Dorothy Dene.

[1][2][7] Walter Crane in his memoir An Artist's Reminiscences (1907) described a sea pleasure trip of the early 1880s, from Brightlingsea to Torquay, in a party where Chester and Calliope Sechiari, daughter of Aglaia Coronio, were the female guests.

At the Londesborough Theatre in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, she played Helen Gaythorne in Weak Woman by Henry James Byron, and Lisette in the after-piece The Swiss Cottage by Thomas Haynes Bayly.

[11] She crossed the Atlantic from Liverpool in the SS Adriatic, chaperoned by her mother and accompanied by Agnes Miller, another aspiring actress, in a party with Weedon Grossmith and Brandon Thomas.

A review by Alan Dale of A Christmas Pantomime Rehearsal commented that "Miss Leslie Chester is so pretty that her dramatic sins can be magnanimously pardoned.