Background
She was born in Toronto and was the daughter of William Beresford Hope, who was a member of the Canadian parliament for South Ontario.
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Her first marriage was to James A. B. Earll. She toured with the companies of Daniel Frohman and Mistress Fiske, appearing in "The Little Blond Lady", a piece by George M. Cohan.
She went to Europe in 1905, and in 1909 was in Italy in a sanatorium, unable to return to the United States. until friends sent money for the return trip.
She died at the Monroe Hotel, on 23rd Street and Third Avenue in New York, where she reportedly had not left her room for years. The Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre describes her as "aggressively untalented".
