According to Fanny Hill and other unreliable sources, her father would in time be a lieutenant colonel in the army and the playmate of a princess.

It was said that she married Dominic Rice of Gray's Inn on 21 February 1778 but she does not appear to be referred to as a wife after this date but still a courtesan.

For four years she was kept very well at a house in St Albans Street during which she did not appear at the Drury Lane Theatre.

[2] Her manager George Colman the Younger described her as an "Irish Venus without the Graces" and he obtained for her the role of Miss Mortimer in Harriet Lee's The Chapter of Accidents.

In 1783 her "gracefully elegant form was exhibited to the utmost advantage" when she appeared in a masquerade at which the Prince of Wales was present.