Educated in art at Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, Daviess travelled to Europe where she continued her study of art. During 1904-05 she exhibited her miniatures and photographical work in Paris with reasonable success before returning to America to teach art. Developing an interest in literature, she began to write novels, producing thirteen over the next fifteen years. She was a founding member of the women's suffrage movement in Nashville and her new home of Madison. In 1923, she published her autobiography, Seven Times Seven. Suffering from chronic arterial rheumatism, Daviess died at her home in Madison in 1924. Her other works include Miss Selena Lue and the Soap-Box Babies (1909), Road to Providence (1910), Rose of Old Harpeth (1911), Melting of Molly (1912), Elected Mother (1912), Tinder-Box (1913), Over Paradise Ridge (1915), Daredevil (1916), Out of a Clear Sky (1917), Golden Bird (1918), Blue Grass and Broadway (1919) and Matrix (1920). |
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