Rafael de la Cruz inspired great passion, or so that was what Nellie had told her girl friends during those gossip heavy days behind the velveteen curtains of the theatre, a tale spun when she longed to boast of what she had as she felt the intricate and delicate nature of fame and celebrity begin ...

Nellie turned her head one way and then the other as she tried to spot a poster for the opera itself, but the opera house was so vastly different from the theatre that it was hard to see anything that looked common enough for her to understand, for though Nellie could read the basics and, as such ...

When Nellie had met Rafael de la Cruz, she had thought herself lucky in finding a man who could get her into the magnificent prestige of the opera. As fate would have it, or rather the stuffy cloistered nature of England, Nellie was somewhat barred from the establishment in a working manner due to ...

Prince’s Theatre, Manchester
1876
Hermia, Midsummer’s Night Dream
Chorus Line/Background, Hamlet

1877
Patience (Katerine’s Waiting Woman, speaking part), Henry VIII
Ophelia, Hamlet

Royal Theatre, Bath
1878

Chorus, Lady of Lyons
Pauline, Lady of Lyons

1879
Galatea, Pygmalion And ...

Though to the general public, Miss Nellie Jones was but a form of a celebrity who played magnificent creatures up on stage and acted the willing star to the people who loitered for a word with a talented actress, Jones’ reputation among the professional sect had… not exactly glimmered in recent ...