After receiving some instruction in music from John David Loder, she first appeared on the Bath stage on 16 March 1816 as Elvina in W. R. Hewetson's Blind Boy.

[2] In 1820 she was at the Adelphi Theatre, where she was the original Amy Robsart in James Planché's adaptation of Kenilworth, and the first Sue to her husband's Primefit in William Moncrieff's Tom and Jerry.

[3] In 1823 she was acting in Birmingham under Alfred Bunn, playing in Sally Booth's part of Rose Briarly in Husbands and Wives.

[3][4] On 24 February 1823 she was given a benefit evening at the Adelphi Theatre, Strand, of Tom and Jerry and she sang "Taste, oh!

[5] She accompanied her manager Alfred Bunn to Drury Lane Theatre, with a reputation for chambermaid parts and as singer.

[8] The performances were nominally gratis: admission to the house was in fact by paying four shillings an ounce at a neighbouring shop for sweetmeats, or purchasing tickets for the Victoria Theatre.

[9] In January 1834 she was appearing in the Theatre Royal, Dublin as Letitia Hardy, Phoebe in Paul Pry, False and Constant, The Haunted Tower, The Marriage of Figaro, and Clari, the Maid of Milan.

[12] In August 1841, she sang in Barnaby Rudge and appeared in John of Paris with Mr. Keeley at the Theatre Royal English Opera House.

[13] In May 1843, Mrs. Waylett, as she was still called after her second marriage, was at the Lyceum Theatre, where she was the President in The Ladies' Club, and played in the farce of Matrimony.

In November 1844, she was back on the Lincoln Circuit, this time performing at the Stamford theatre, assisted by Messrs Lee and Hammond, and the band of the Coldstream Guards.