Beginning her career as a Gaiety Girl, she went on to act in featured roles on the London stage in musical theatre around the close of the 19th century, including comic operas and operettas, Victorian burlesques, farces and Edwardian musical comedies.
"[3] Her West End roles included Lady Pattie in Adonis (1886),[4] Fernand in Monte Cristo Jr. (1886), Lady Betty in the comic opera Dorothy (1886),[5] a small role in the Victorian burlesque Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim (1887),[6] Siebel in another burlesque, Faust up to date (1888–1889),[7] Letty Lansdell in First Mate (1888–1889),[7][8] Una Foxwood in The Gold Mine; or, the Miller of Grenoble (1890),[9][10] and Polly in The Bookmaker by J. W. Pigott (1890).
Cecil Howard wrote in The Theatre that her performance as Polly was "as good ... as one could wish ... her bravado, her insolent vulgarity, were only equalled by the little exquisite touch of pathos towards the close".
[11] She played Mrs. Huntley in Sweet Nancy (1890)[12] and Corisande in Ivan Caryll's version of Ma mie Rosette (1892).
[13][14] In 1893–1894, she played the phony "Comtesse de la Blague" in Morocco Bound,[15] in which role she was called "bright and engaging".