She performed with the best-known 19th century actors including: Tommaso Salvini, Lawrence Barrett, Joseph Jefferson, and William J.

[citation needed] From 1885 to 1916, Allen starred in over two dozen Broadway productions, creating characters in many original plays.

She played classical Shakesperean and comedy roles with Salvini, Lawrence Jarrett, Joseph Jefferson and V. J. Florence.

She acted in The Masqueraders, Under the Red Robe, The Christian,[7] In the Palace of the King (1900), Twelfth Night, A Winter's Tale, As You Like It, The Lady of Coventry (1911), and others.

[citation needed] Allen married Peter Edward Cornell Duryea on August 16, 1905, and they remained wed until his death in 1944.