The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. Ed. Phyllis Hartnoll and Peter Found

As a child she appeared in such parts as Little Eva in one of the many dramatizations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. In 1888 she made her first appearance in New York, and three years later was engaged to play opposite John Drew. She first emerged as a star with her performance as Lady Babbie in The Little Minister (1897), a part which Barrie rewrote and enlarged specially for her. Her quaint, elfin personality suited his work to perfection, and she appeared successfully in the American productions of his Quality Street (1901), Peter Pan (1905), What Every Woman Knows (1908), Rosalind (1914), and A Kiss for Cinderella (1916). She was also much admired as the young hero of Rostand's L'Aiglon (1900), and in such Shakespearian parts as Viola, Juliet, and Rosalind. In 1918 she retired, not acting again until 1931, when she appeared on tour in The Merchant of Venice as Portia to the Shylock of Otis Skinner. In 1937 she made her last appearance in Rostand's Chantecler, playing the title-role as she had in its first production in 1911.