Not to be confused with her grandmother, Maria T. Daviess (1814–1896), an author with the same name.
Maria Thompson Daviess (November 28, 1872 – September 3, 1924) was an American artist and feminist author. She is best known for her popular novels written in the early 20th century, with a "Pollyanna" outlook, as well as several short stories, among them, “Miss Selina Sue and the Soap-Box Babies," "Sue Saunders of Saunders Ridge" and "Some Juniors.".[1] Daviess was affiliated with the Equal Suffrage League in Kentucky, being the co-founder and vice-president of the chapter in Nashville and an organizer of the chapter in Madison.[2]
Maria (sometimes "Marie")[3] Thompson Daviess was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, November 28, 1872.[2] Her parents were John Burton Thompson Daviess (a relative of the Harrodsburg-born writer Zoe Anderson Norris) and Leonora Hamilton Daviess. The father, John B. T. Daviess, died when she was eight, and the family subsequently relocated to Nashville, Tennessee. Her paternal grandmother, also named Maria Thompson Daviess, was a columnist and lecturer.[2]
Daviess studied one year at Wellesley College, and then travelled to Paris to study art. Returning to Nashville, she continued to paint and also took up writing. Her first novel, Miss Selina Lue and the Soap-box Babies was published in 1909. The Melting of Molly, published in 1912, was one of the top best-selling books for the year. She published sixteen novels between 1909 and 1920.
^Gaston, Kay Baker. MARIA THOMPSON DAVIESS: THE MAKING OF A WRITER AND SUFFRAGETTE, in Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Vol. LXX Fall 2011 Number 3), pp. 196–211
^Townsend, John Wilson. Kentucky in American letters, 1784–1912, p. 279-81 (1913)
^Morrow, Libbie Luttrell Maria Thompson Daviess, The Book News Monthly (January 1914)
^Clark, Edwin (May 18, 1924). Tastes of a Self-Sufficient Women, The New York Times (review of autobiography describes Daviess as "a writer of the Polyanna School")
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