About
Opera singer and actress who created the soprano role of Josephine in the opera H.M.S. Pinafore.
Before fame
She performed in concerts with her father, who was a conductor and baritone singer, when she was a child.
Trivia
She taught music in Brooklyn after retiring from acting in the 1890s.
Family life
Her nephew was actor Albert Howson.
Associated with
She was a soprano singer like fellow Australian Joan Sutherland.
