 Her mother's name and fate is unknown; when Edwin was around eight her father married twenty-one-year-old Sarah Edmonds in London.At Crow Street Theatre, when eight years old, she appeared in "Prince Arthur" and other juvenile characters, including a part written specially for her by O'Keefe in his lost and forgotten farce, "The Female Club".She also, for her benefit, played Priscilla Tomboy in "The Romp", an abridged version of Bickerstaffe's "Love in the City".