 She played in "Dancing Dolls", a variety show at the Globe Theatre in August 1876, before returning to America the next year to tour with Adah Richmond's Burlesque Company.That fall she appeared on the legitimate stage in Boston at Howard's Athenaeum as Fanny Vanderbilt in The "Charity Ball" and later in a production of "Robin Hood".In February 1878 the press linked Markham to scandal involving a former governor of South Carolina and the issuing of fraudulent bonds.