Using the stage name Constance Featherstonhaugh in her first stage appearance she played Juliet with Kyrle Bellew in 1883. She soon after joined Sir Frank Benson's company and they married in 1886. With Sir Frank's company she of course played a number of Shakespeare parts, almost all the female leads in the repertory in every major theatre in Great Britain.

Lady Benson wrote an interesting autobiography that is filled with anecdotes about the actors who worked with Benson: Mainly Players: Bensonian Memories (1926).

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