In 1900 Brayton was chosen by Herbert Beerbohm Tree to create the part of Mariamne in his production of Herod.

In 1907 Lily, as Katherine, and Agnes, as Bianca, appeared in the Oxford University Dramatic Society's production of The Taming of the Shrew with Gervais Rentoul as Petruchio.

The Asche hit musical comedy Chu Chin Chow was staged in London in 1916.

Asche became unstable and violent in his later years, and he and Brayton separated for a time, although she produced his 1928 play, The Good Old Days of England.

[6] After Asche's death in 1936, Brayton married Dr. Douglas Chalmers Watson and moved to Drem in East Lothian.

[1] She was cremated and her ashes buried in the grave of her first husband in the riverside cemetery near her former home in Bisham, Berkshire.