 Still only 14, she enjoyed widespread popularity in George Edwardes's Burlesque Company at the Gaiety Theatre playing the dancing role of Totchen, the vivandière (camp follower) in "Faust Up To Date" (1888–89).In March 1889, under the headline "Disappearance of a Burlesque Actress", "The Star" newspaper reported that Love had disappeared.It was later reported that she had gone to the Thames Embankment, considering suicide.