Vincent was born in
Southwark in 1815. Her parents were Ann and Philip Vincent and her father sold the news. Vincent became a child star after her first appearance in 1821 in
George Dibdin Pitt's play
The Ruffian Boy at the Surrey Theatre. Vincent was in the title role, she still backed Dibdin Pitt's work. She and the theatre achieved great success with this play which lasted a decade. By 1849, it had been performed 343 times. In 1841,
David Osbaldiston who was Vincent's lover took over as lessee of
The Old Vic. In 1848 the theatre put on the first dramatization of
Jane Eyre by
Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë) with Miss Vincent in the title role on February 9-12th. Osbaldiston was succeeded on his death in 1850 by Vincent who was still the theatre's leading lady. The theatre remained devoted to melodrama. In 1858, sixteen people were crushed to death inside the theatre after mass panic caused after an actor's clothing caught fire. Vincent died in 1856 in
Lambeth. ==Private life==