Her father was a member of the King's music and he made a change in his will in 1724 to favour his children Mary and Thomas.
Her first few parts were in The Burgomaster Trick'd, Henry Carey's The Dragon of Wantley and then Glowworm in Robin Goodfellow.
[1] On 8 March 1740 the hugely successful Kitty Clive appeared as Rosamond at Drury Lane in Thomas Arne's opera of the same name.
[1] In 1741 she was with the actors at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre where her soprano voice was used in works by Handel.
[2] Her husband's only published play, Heiress, or Antigallican, was centred on a girl who was brought up as a boy.