For fifteen years she appeared at Covent Garden and at the Haymarket theatres where she was a popular comedian.

The following year she was working in Colchester when she is said to have interceded to save the job of "Plausible Jack" Palmer.

Her daughter was introduced to the stage in England in 1788 but she made her name as "Mrs Wilmot" in America.

[2] She appeared at Covent Garden and at the Haymarket theatres where she was one of the most popular comedians for fifteen years.

In 1787 she appeared as "Mrs Dove" in Cumberland's comedy and she was recorded in this role in her Samuel de Wilde painting.