Carey was born in Chile. Her theatrical career began in August 1868 under
William Hoskins at the
Prince of Wales Theatre, Sydney, as Mrs Shelborne in the comedy
A Roland for an Oliver, and rapidly became popular. In December 1869 she was the subject of a story that appeared
verbatim in all the Melbourne newspapers, to the effect that she had eloped from the "Prince of Wales" with her lover of three years rather than be conscripted into Walter Montgomery's troupe headed for
Auckland, New Zealand. There was no mention of the story in the Sydney papers, apart to say that her part (as "Miss Burroughs") in
Dion Boucicault's play
Formosa, had been taken by another actress. There was no follow-up to the story, and the subject appears not to have been referred to again by any newspaper. Her next stage appearance was a week later, at the
Theatre Royal Adelphi, in ''
The Sergeant's Wife'', directed by
Rosa Cooper. She appeared in
pantomime as Robin Hood She returned to the
Theatre Royal, Melbourne, in May 1876, and played
Lady Macbeth to
Henry Talbot's Macbeth in June. She played Naomi Tighe in
School and Polly Eccles in
Caste, both by
T. W. Robertson later that month. Carey and her mother left for San Francisco later that year to seek their fortune in America. In 1889, as Eleanor Corey-Blood, she toured America with the
Cora Tanner company. == Personal ==