Her father was a musician, William Ivers, and her mother was an actress who allowed her daughter to appear.

[1] She was well read and her husband, Dr Thomas Orger was a translator of Ovid and Anacreon, and he had written a book about Napoleon.

He didn't object to her acting and he become a founder member of the Swedenborg Society and the editor of Intellectual Repository.

[2] She had a pause after her marriage before she returned to the stage in Edinburgh in 1805 as Amelia Wildenshaw in Lovers Vows.

[4] In 1807 she appeared in Glasgow as Caroline Sedley in James Kenney's False Alarm in a benefit for the singer and actress Rosoman Mountain.