Hypotheses on A Theatre Career

1. 1835: Ebenezer dies, and the family (exact constitution unknown) moves from Bristol to London
2. 1836: Emma goes out to work, as a pupil-teacher for Thomas Welsh
3. 1840-2: Emma perhaps does some work at Covent Garden
4. 1842: Emma is placed in the Princess's Theatre, perhaps by Welsh, and participates in the then-current fare of operatic works, comedy, farce and burlesque
5. 1844: Emma 'moves up' from the Princess's Theatre, to the Theatre Royal at Sadler's Wells (episodic), the Haymarket (episodic) and the Adelphi (regular work)
6. 1848 or after: Emma does some work at Covent Garden, meeting Michael Costa
7. c 1850: Emma's earnings are sufficient to move from wherever she has been living (which she describes as an area of hideous squalour in other works) to 12 Tufton Street, Westminster, where she can afford a housekeeper
8. c. January 1855: Emma is blackballed out of the theatres by the "baffled sensualist" and "millionaire" who keeps her for some unknown period of time before she is "rescued" by the opportunity to go to Paris with the Walleck company for the (as it turns out) disastrous performances of Macbeth
9. 1855: Down and out in Paris, Emma is rescued by the manager of the Broadway Theatre with a nine-month contract to appear in New York. The manager has evidently done some serious head-hunting while in Paris, as there are other actresses, from Paris, aboard the Pacific when it brings "Mrs. Harding" and "Miss Harding" to New York in August of 1855

Many holes and suppositions, yet.

Plus those two stays in Paris, and one in Milan, via Monte Carlo, yet to fit in.