Little Em'ly by Andrew Halliday, based on Dickens's David Copperfield. The following year she moved to the Globe Theatre in Philomel, part of a double-bill with The Ticket-of-Leave Man, and in the same year, she appeared in Man o' Airlie with Hermann Vezin. Also in 1870, she created the part of Katie Maguire in Inisfallen by Edmund Falconer at the Lyceum Theatre, London and played Lizzie Hexham in another adaptation of a Dickens novel, Our Mutual Friend, at the Opera Comique. The Observer wrote of this production, "Her acting... is poetical in the highest sense.... If we mistake not, Miss Ernstone will occupy a distinguished position on the stage." In 1873 at Astley's Theatre, Ernstone played the title role in The Fair Rosamond by William Mower Akhurst (1822–1878). That year, at the Olympic, she played Grace Roseberry in Wilkie Collins's The New Magdalen, followed the next year by Henriette in The Two Orphans by John Oxenford, with Henry Neville and the young Rutland Barrington. In 1875 she created the role of Ruth Leigh in The Detective at the Mirror Theatre (formerly the Holborn). The Times thought the play too long and called for drastic cuts, but added, "Miss Ernstone plays the devoted Ruth in so earnest a spirit that we cannot express without regret our fears that the part will be terribly reduced when the abbreviations of the piece are effected." In 1878 at the Haymarket Theatre, she played Olivia in Twelfth Night and returned to the Olympic in a revival of The Two Orphans. The following year, she appeared at the Olympic as Marguerite Duval in a melodrama called Mother and at the Standard Theatre as Margaret Wentworth in Henry Dunbar. References General references Angie Schott at Rootsweb Inline citations 1841 births 1933 deaths 19th-century English actresses English stage actresses People from Ferndown