With strongman William Hedley Roberts, better known as Atlas, she toured music halls in Britain, Europe, and Australia.

[3] Atlas, a true showman of his times, greatly exaggerated his own and Vulcana's lifting capacities, and most of his published boasts have been dismissed.

[citation needed] Vulcana reached the height of her popularity in France, impressing the Halterophile Club de France with her feats of strength, which earned her a medal from the "Father of French Bodybuilding", Professor Edmond Desbonnet and a picture on the cover of La Santé par les Sports.

[citation needed] She freed a wagon stuck in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London in October 1901 by lifting it before astonished witnesses.

On 29 May 1913 at Haggar's Theatre in Llanelli, she lifted a challenge bell that rival strongwoman Athelda (Frances Rheinlander) failed to raise[4] after twenty-five minutes of trying.

However, some of the stories about her are based on genuine incidents of heroism on her part:[citation needed] Vulcana and Atlas moved permanently to London in the 1920s, and retired from performance in 1932.