Her first appearance in public at Drury Lane Theatre in January 1821, as Mandane in Thomas Arne's Artaxerxes, caused a sensation, as much for her youth and looks as for her fresh sweet voice and brilliant singing.
Other roles included Rosetta in Arne's Love in a Village, Clara in The Duenna and Lady Gayland in James Kenney's False Alarms.
But her short career was very lucrative, and in the year of her debut she made the unprecedented sum of £10,000.
[2] She married on 9 June 1827 Thomas Welsh, at St Augustine, Watling Street, London.
They had a daughter, Mary Ann Lucy Welsh (born 1828); she married the cellist Alfredo Piatti in 1855.