Her father was a professional dancer and by the age of five she and her brother were getting reviews for their precocious dancing in Paris.
[3] The curate John Grierson, who had carried out the marriage, received the same sentence: Vernon had testified at the trial, and consequentially hissed off the stage.
She caused scandal that year when she shocked the royal family in their Covent Garden box with a very low cut gown.
She balanced this by tying a shoe on stage and the stalls noticed that she not wearing underwear.
[1] In 1772 the Theatrical Biography said that the bass singer Charles Bannister who was also known as a comedian who worked in the same summer company as her from 1770 to 1774 was her lover.