She first acted in Manchester and appeared in London at the St James's Theatre in the first showing of Cupid's Ladder by Leicester Buckingham.

After that she returned to work under Alfred Wigan as Margaret Lovell in Tom Taylor's Up at the Hills.

In a short life Moore appeared in the first showing of several notable performances at the Haymarket Theatre, the Queen's and the Princesses.

One of her performances moved Henry Sambrooke Leigh to write a verse in her honour.

This caused some speculation but later research identifies the woman in Irving's photograph as Ethel Western aka Zaré Thalberg.