 In 1866, at the age of 21, she joined London's Olympic Theatre, where she played Prince Pecki in the Olympic's new burlesque "Princess Primrose and the Four Pretty Princes", earning warm reviews for her singing and acting, and Cordelia Jemima in the drama "Love's Martyrdom".She was also cast in character roles, such as the domineering Queen Greymare in the first English adaptation of Offenbach's "Barbe-bleue".In 1867, she played a season at the Victoria Theatre was later in Liverpool at the St James's Hall.