In 1876 she appeared as Lady Teazle in "The School for Scandal", Blanche Haye in a revival of T. W. Robertson's "Ours", and the title role in "Olivia" by William Gorman Wills at the Court Theatre (an adaptation of "The Vicar of Wakefield"), where she joined the company of John Hare. In November 1877 she married Charles Clavering Wardell Kelly (1839–1885), an actor/journalist she had met while appearing in Reade's plays, but they separated in 1881. After this, she finally reconciled with her parents, whom she had not seen since she began to live out-of-wedlock with Godwin.