- Had a nervous breakdown the January preceding her death.
- Among 500 persons attending her funeral were: Charles B. Dillingham, David Belasco, Nellie Revell, Oscar Shaw, Ernest Truex, Blanche Bates, Ina Claire and May Irwin.
- Famous for the song "The Brooklyn Bridge at Midnight is Lover's Lane".
- Made her stage debut in 1885 at the Alcazar Theater in San Francisco. Her performance there led to an offer to work in New York.
- A favorable article written by Richard Harding Davis in the New York Sun helped propel her to stardom.
- Her career spanned some 35 years only to be cut short by ill health.
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