Florence West

[1] She made her debut in 1883, in the leading role of Mary Belton in H. J. Byron's Uncle Dick's Darling at Toole's Theatre.

Subsequently she appeared with Fannie Leslie's company as Milly De Vere in Jack-in-the-Box, first played in the provinces, and then brought to the Strand Theatre, London in February 1887.

In To the Death, Rutland Barrington's adaptation of Mr. Barnes of New York, produced at the Olympic in March 1888, West played Marita.

[6] At the Haymarket Theatre in January 1895 West created the role of Mrs Cheveley in the premiere of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband.

[7] Later in 1895 she played Mrs Thorpe Didsbury in The Home Secretary, Kate Creegen in Hall Caine's The Manxman and Leah D'Acosta in A Woman's Reason, at the Shaftesbury.

In July 1897 she created the role of The Strange Lady in Bernard Shaw's The Man of Destiny,[8] and later that year appeared with her husband in Sydney Grundy's A Marriage of Convenience.