 Everard made her first known stage appearance in Exeter, at the Theatre Royal, about 1861, and in Swansea and Plymouth from 1862 to 1863, earning warm notices for her singing in the burlesques, pantomimes and comic operas, such as adaptations of "Guy Mannering", "Rob Roy", "Aladdin", "Ruy Blas" and "Fortunio".In 1864, she was at the Surrey Theatre in Sheffield appearing in "Sinbad" "Guy Mannering" and "Rob Roy".That summer, she appeared at Jersey's Queen's Assembly Rooms.