[6] In October 1882 Prescott sued the American News Company for publishing provocative stories about her private life, leading to a high-profile court case.

[8] In November 1882 Prescott and Perzel met with the Irish poet Oscar Wilde, who was then touring America with lectures on art and home decoration, to discuss producing his first play, Vera; or, The Nihilists, a tragedy set in Russia.

[11] Josephine Guy has argued that Prescott was not the "compliant collaborator" that she has often been characterised to be, and, though cordial in her dealings with Wilde, was assertive during contract negotiations and discussions about edits to the script.

[13] The New York Mirror, in one of the only positive reviews, judged Vera "a work that takes rank among the highest order of plays", and praised Prescott's performance as "marked by intelligence and faultless elocution".

[19] After divorcing Perzel she married MacLean in 1892 and the pair toured together, appearing in plays by Shakespeare as well as Prescott's own adaptations of Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard and Wormwood by Marie Corelli.