Background
She was the daughter of Charles Furtado, professor of music in London and composer of ballads.
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Career
Her appearances at the Adelphi included Number Thoroughfare by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens (1868) and Esmeralda in Notre-Dame or, The Gipsy Girl of Paris, a dramatized version of Victor Hugo"s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1875). She also appeared in the premieres of two early works by West.S. Gilbert – as Pocahontas in his 1867 burlesque, Robinson Crusoe at the Haymarket Theatre and as Jenny Wren in his 1867 pantomime, Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren at the Lyceum Theatre. Her premature death at the age of 32 led to his breakdown and he died less than two years later.
