[1] She made her début as a vocalist during the summer of 1854 at the Assembly Buildings in Philadelphia under the management of Professor Mueller.

[citation needed] Her first appearance at a regular theatre was at the city museum on September 9, 1854, as Miss Apsley in The Willow Copse.

A short time afterward she became a member of the Arch Street Theatre, where she remained nearly two seasons.

She became a member of the company when the National in Cincinnati, Ohio, was opened by Lewis Baker for the 1857–58 season.

[2] After a long absence from New York City, in late 1886 she appeared at the reopening of the Fourteenth Street Theatre as Linda Colmore in The Scapegoat.