She had a fine voice and a good knowledge of music, sang with much expression, and was in her day unequalled in such Scotch ballads as John Anderson and Roy's Wife.

Leigh Hunt gave her large amounts of credit in his Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres, and speaks of her as the best lady our comic stage possesses, and advocates her ability to capture the audience and transform herself into a masculine figure.

She also played Rosella at an early age in Love in a Village and Polly in Bate Dudley's opera The Woodman.

[1] Her first regular engagement was from Tate Wilkinson, as a member of whose company she appeared in York near the end of last century, playing as her first role, Sophia in Holcroft's Road to Ruin, and Gillim in Dibdin's The Quaker.

At Margate in 1804, she was engaged by Wroughton for Drury Lane, where she appeared 8 October 1804 as Miss Duncan from Edinburgh, playing Lady Teazle to the Sir Peter of Mathews, and the Charles Surface of Elliston.

Miss Hardcastle, Sylvia in The Recruiting Officer, Maria in The Way to Keep Him, Miranda in the Busy Body, Lydia Languish, Letitia Hardy in The Belle's Stratagem, and many other leading characters were taken in the course of her first season.

Miss Duncan, however, was loved by audiences everywhere, not only in the characters named, but in parts essentially in Mrs. Jordan's line, such as Nell in the Devil to Pay, Peggy in the Country Girl, and Priscilla in The Romp.