Nelly Bromley

Her mother was born into the large family of John Charles Bromley (died 1839) and his wife Hannah née Shailer.

By December 1866, she was acting at the Royalty Theatre in London, playing Dolly Mayflower in a burlesque by F. C. Burnand of Black-Eyed Susan.

[1] Like her mother, she soon appeared in many of the West End theatres including the Globe, Olympic, Royal Court, the Gaiety and the Strand.

[1] She then returned to the Royalty (under the management of Richard D'Oyly Carte acting for Selina Dolaro) to create the role of the Plaintiff, on 25 March 1875, in Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury.

[4] She next played at the Criterion Theatre as Mrs Graham in The Great Divorce Case, an adaptation of Le Procès Veauradieux.

[1] Later in 1875 Bromley played the Princess of Granada in H. S. Leigh's translation of Jacques Offenbach's Les brigands, presented at the Globe Theatre with the title Falsacappa.