Hood next appeared in "Billee Taylor" at the Gaiety Theatre in 1885 and "Little Jack Sheppard" in 1885–86. She then created the title role in B. C. Stephenson and Alfred Cellier's hit "Dorothy" beginning in 1886, playing in the show for 350 performances until illness forced her to withdraw from the cast (to be replaced by Marie Tempest). She soon returned to the Gaiety to star in such burlesques as "Monte Cristo Jr." (1886), "Miss Esmeralda" (1887), "Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim" (1887–88) and "Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué" (1889). She toured America on two occasions with Gaiety companies during the period 1888–90).