She was born in 1711, and married in early life a poor actor named Pritchard. As Mrs. Pritchard she acted in 1733, at Fielding and Hippisley's booth, "Bartholomew Fair", the part of Loveit in an opera called "A Cure for Covetousness, or the Cheats of Scapin". She sang with great effect "Sweet, if you love me, smiling, turn". A duet between her and an actor called Salway was very popular, and she was berhymed by a writer in the "Daily Post", who spoke of this as her first essay, and predicted for her "a transportation to a brighter stage".