She was born to a London coal merchant and was a child star, making her debut in November of 1771 at the age of eleven in Covent Garden Theatre singing the role of Titania in George Colman's The Fairy Prince (music by Thomas Arne).
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She then ran off to Bath with her husband for the summer, returning for the breeches role of Patie in Allan Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd and the female role of Marinetta in Richard Tickell and Thomas Linley's Carnival of Venice.
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In 1775, she sang oratorio at Covent Garden and began the role of Clara in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Duenna. However, although she was in great demand as Clara, she ran away from the theatre with the playwright and gunpowder maker Miles Peter Andrews.
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