Lovell was born in London on 15 July 1803 to Willoughby Lacy of Drury Lane.

[2] By 1826 she had appeared in Love's Victory by Lady Mary Wroth and a lithograph recorded her role.

[3] She retired from acting and married in 1830 George William Lovell, a well-known dramatist, author of The Provost of Bruges, The Wife's Secret, Love's Sacrifice, Look Before You Leap, and The Trial of Love.

[2] Lovell published a five act play titled Ingomar the Barbarian[5] from Der Sohn der Wildnis ("The Son of the Wilderness"), a German-language play by Eligius Franz Joseph, Freiherr von Munch-Bellinghausen, an Austrian who wrote as Friedrich Halm, and has been referred to as "Bellinghausen".

[6] The leading role of Parthenia was taken by Charlotte Vandenhoff when it was first performed at Drury Lane in 1851.