She was an English singer, actress and performer in music hall, burlesque and pantomime. Her funeral attracted three to four thousand spectators, and a further great crowd at the start of the procession from her home. appeared in the music halls from the age of 8, and developed a comic style mimicking that of George Leybourne, which brought her fame by the age of 15 and the offer of principal parts in pantomimes. She made her first appearance on the London stage in 1868 in the pantomime Robinson Crusoe. With Vesta Tilley as Captain Tralala at Drury Lane, she achieved national fame in the music halls with an act in which she caracatured dandies with comic songs such as "La-di-la".
∼Victorian Actress. Famous Music Hall star and one of the first ‘male impersonators'. She started out as a child performer and went on to become a highly successful Pantomime and Burlesque actress and vocalist. Her most famous song being The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery.
∼Victorian Actress. Famous Music Hall star and one of the first ‘male impersonators'. She started out as a child performer and went on to become a highly successful Pantomime and Burlesque actress and vocalist. Her most famous song being The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery.
She was an English singer, actress and performer in music hall, burlesque and pantomime. Her funeral attracted three to four thousand spectators, and a further great crowd at the start of the procession from her home. appeared in the music halls from the age of 8, and developed a comic style mimicking that of George Leybourne, which brought her fame by the age of 15 and the offer of principal parts in pantomimes. She made her first appearance on the London stage in 1868 in the pantomime Robinson Crusoe. With Vesta Tilley as Captain Tralala at Drury Lane, she achieved national fame in the music halls with an act in which she caracatured dandies with comic songs such as "La-di-la".
∼Victorian Actress. Famous Music Hall star and one of the first ‘male impersonators'. She started out as a child performer and went on to become a highly successful Pantomime and Burlesque actress and vocalist. Her most famous song being The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery.
∼Victorian Actress. Famous Music Hall star and one of the first ‘male impersonators'. She started out as a child performer and went on to become a highly successful Pantomime and Burlesque actress and vocalist. Her most famous song being The Boy I Love Is Up In The Gallery.
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