She took to the stage in 1899,[2] and made her London debut as the Duchesse de Longueville in a period piece, The Bond of Ninon by Clotilde Graves, at the Savoy Theatre in April 1906.
[1] Her first considerable success was as Mrs. Cray in “The Builders” by Norah Keith at the Criterion on 10 November 1908.
[3] She then joined the Lewis Waller Players and regularly worked at London's Lyric Theatre.
[1][4] In September 1909 she was taken on by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree at Her Majesty's Theatre.
She was operated on at the hospital, and her appendix removed, and taken to a nursing home to recover, but died three days later of pneumonia with her husband—theatre critic Thomas Malcolm Watson—at her side.