of Alexander The Great, a role she would reprise at other times in her career. Amongst other roles she played at Covent Garden that season are Eleanor in Henry II, Hermione in A Winter's Tale and Queen Elizabeth in Henry Jones' tragedy, The Earl of Essex. In 1776 she played Edinburgh with her husband, where, among many other leading roles, she played Alicia in The Tragedy of Jane Shore, Viola in Twelfth Night and Mrs Belville in School for Wives. In Edinburgh she also played Lady Macbeth for the first time – a role for which she would eventually become famous. In November 1776 she made her debut at Drury Lane as Lady Macbeth and the following February, reprised her role as Roxanne in The Rival Queens, alongside Mary Robinson. This would be her last appearance in London; the following year she and her husband were in Paris, then in 1778 and 1779 they played two seasons in Edinburgh, where Melmoth began to add Comic parts (including Lady Sneerwell in The School for Scandal) to her previously tragic repertoire. In late 1779, after a season in Birmingham, Melmoth's success seems to have faded for a while, and the couple travelled Britain seeking work, occasionally telling fortunes for a living. By 1780 the couple had returned to where Melmoth's acting career had started: the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. They made their final appearance there as a couple in 1781, after which they separated and never met again. Melmoth toured the major cities of Ireland, playing in Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Derry and Belfast, eventually settling in Dublin. She played Smock Alley from 1782 to 1783, was the 'prima donna' of Leoni's Capel Street Opera House from 1783 to 1784, Owensons Fishamble Street Theatre from 1784 to 1785, returned to Smock Alley from 1785 to 1788, finally ending her Irish stage career at the Crow Street Theatre from 1788 to 1789. According to The Thespian Dictionary, Melmoth converted to Roman Catholicism in 1786, shortly prior to her benefit performance in Dublin; the Dictionary suggests her motives were purely mercenary – increased ticket sales in a Catholic city – but most biographers believe her conversion to be sincere. In July 1789 Melmoth announced her retirement from the theatre to open a school teaching filigree work to ladies, but the school was not a success and in 1793 Melmoth emigrated to the United States