She performed leading roles in West End theatres in the 1870s in comedy, drama and Victorian burlesque and remarried in 1877 to Alexander Rolls, the former Mayor of Monmouth, briefly moving to Wales.

[4][7] Barry first appeared on stage as Princess Fortinbrasse in Dion Boucicault and James Planché's Babil and Bijou at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 1872.

[10] Later that year, she took the role of Margaret Hayes in Tom Taylor's play, Arkwright's Wife, at the Theatre Royal in Leeds.

[8] The Times wrote that she "has all the force required by the arduous character of Margaret, and she expresses the tenderer emotions with good effect".

[14] The actress married widower Alexander Rolls, a man more than 20 years her elder,[15][16] on 1 September 1877 at the Parish Church of St Mark at Regent's Park in Middlesex.

[19] As a young man, he had purchased his commission in the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards,[20] eventually reaching the rank of Major.

Within one year of her husband's death, Barry was remarried and widowed again: by early 1883, she married Harry George Bolam, a land agent and mining engineer.

[29][30] In 1888, she appeared in A Woman of the World, an adaptation by B. C. Stephenson of Der Probpnfeil by Oscar Blumenthal, at the Haymarket Theatre, starring alongside Herbert Beerbohm Tree.

[citation needed] Barry died on 20 July 1904 in the US in Norwalk, Connecticut, and her estate went to probate on 24 April 1906 in London.