comedietta Tears followed, in which Hill played Mrs Vivien. She performed at the Mirror Theatre in 1875, described as "lively and picquant in a character well suited to her powers" in Self by John Oxenford and Horace Wigan. Hill was Mary Rivers in All for Her at St James's Theatre in March the following year. She was in the cast of Delicate Ground at the Royal Princess's Theatre in June 1876. A full page photo of Hill appears on the cover of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 4 November 1876. In 1877 at the Theatre Royal, Bath, in The Annual Amateur Performance, she performed with amateurs in The Honey Moon by John Tobin. Back at the Haymarket that April, she reprised her role of Mirza in The Palace of Truth. At the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, Hill played Lilian Herries in April 1878, when she was described as one of the most charming actresses on the English stage. In July 1878 she was in Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith, by W. S. Gilbert, at the Gaiety Theatre. The following month at her Benefit night at Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, Hill played Maud Callender in The Vagabond by Gilbert. In November she took a 12 night engagement at Theatre Royal, Landport, in the comedy-drama A Scrap of Paper! by John Palgrave Simpson. At the Duke's Theatre in 1879, she appeared in New Babylon by Paul Meritt. In 1881 she was in the cast of Youth at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, where in 1882 she appeared in Pluck, by Henry Pettitt and Augustus Harris, as Florence Templeton. In March 1882 Hill appeared as Bess with her future husband Herbert Kelcey as Harold Armytage in George Robert Sims's The Lights o' London at Theatre Royal, South Shields. They both appeared in Pettit and George Conquest's play Queen's Evidence at the Pavilion Theatre in July 1882, as Gilbert and Kate Medland. Hill married Kelcey in 1883. New York and later years Invited to New York with her husband by Lester Wallack in 1883, Hill was a success in the role of Lady Dolly Vanderdecken in "Moths" at Wallack's Theatre. The following year, she played Fanny Gainsborough in The Pulse of New York, then appeared in Confusion and Old Love Letters, together with her husband, at the Park Theatre in Brooklyn, New York. She portrayed Lady Hilda in Broken Hearts, by W. S. Gilbert, at the