[5] She came to the United States in 1867 and first performed at the Academy of Music in New York City, on October 9, 1867, managed by Max Maretzek.

[6] In three years time since arriving in the U.S. she mastered enough English dialect to communicate with American audiences and decided to make America her home.

Her performance of Medea by Franz Grillparzer inspired William Dean Howells to write his novel A Modern Instance.

In 1873, Janauschek starred in an adaptation of Charles Dickens's Bleak House, in which she played both the heroine Lady Dedlock and the murderous Mademoiselle Hortense.

Friends and actors gathered a collection to have her buried properly in Evergreen Cemetery, New York City.