Georgina's tour of the provinces had been, as she herself admitted, ‘a complete failure’. As usual, she believed that this was the fault of the journalists and critics who had libelled and boycotted her, and the theatre managers who had failed to advertise her properly. The next three years were to see a series of increasingly desperate attempts to keep herself in the public eye and to air her many grievances. The costs of her unsuccessful legal battles mounted up and she desperately needed to supplement her income of little more than £600 a year.

At first Georgina's confidence in her popularity in London seemed to be well founded. On 8 November (1886) she ‘went off gaily on my tricycle and got quite safe to the Law Courts’. She spent the day there until, according to The Times:

For the next eighteen months or so she found it easy to get engagements in London music halls. In December she appeared for five nights at Deacon's in Clerkenwell, ‘a beastly bouge [dump]’. The audiences there were disappointing. She was more successful in Peckham early in the following year. The house was ‘packed, immensely enthusiastic’. She sang Gounod's ‘Oh! dille tu!’ and her own composition, ‘Song of the sparrow’, with ‘Annie Laurie’ as an encore. On the same evening she went on to Shoreditch and sang ‘I can't get my conjugal rights’, a comic song which had been written specially for her.