sentences:  After her mother's death, Bromley and her younger sister, Jessy Cook, were raised by their grandmother Hannah.Bromley used her nickname "Nelly" as her stage name and, like her mother, began a stage career in her teens.By December 1866, she was acting at the Royalty Theatre in London, playing Dolly Mayflower in a burlesque by F. C. Burnand of "Black-Eyed Susan".