Career
Her funeral attracted three to four thousand spectators at Abney Park Cemetery and a further great crowd at the start of the procession from her home. Power appeared in the music halls from the age of 8, and developed a comic style mimicking that of George Leybourne, which brought her fame by the age of 15 and the offer of principal parts in pantomimes. She made her first appearance on the London stage in 1868 in the pantomime Robinson Crusoe.
She then moved to the Vaudeville Theatre performing in a number of burlesque plays.
She was the original singer of "The Boy I Love Is Up in the Gallery" which was written for her by songwriter/composer George Ware. Nelly Power died from pleurisy on 19 January 1887, aged 32.
Her grave at Abney Park Cemetery was restored in 2012 by the theatre charity The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.