Maria Thompson Daviess

Maria Thompson Daviess (November 25, 1872 - September 3, 1924) was an American novelist and artist, best known for her popular novels written with a "Pollyanna" outlook.

Daviess was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in 1872. After her father died when she was eight, her family relocated to Nashville, Tennessee. She studied one year at Wellesley College, and then went 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.

In 1921, she moved to New York City, where she died in September 1924. She did not marry and had no children.

Bibliography

Works by Maria Thompson Daviess include:

• Miss Selina Lue and the Soap-box Babies (1909)
• The Road To Providence (1910)
• Rose of Old Harpeth (1911)
• The Treasure Babies (1911)
• The Melting of Molly (1912)
• The Elected Mother, A Story of Woman's Equal Rights (1912)
• Andrew the Glad (1913)
• The Tinder Box (1913)
• Sue Jane (1913)
• Phyllis (1914)
• Over Paradise Ridge (1915)
• The Daredevil (1916)
• The Heart's Kingdom (1917)
• Out of a Clear Sky (1917)
• The Golden Bird (1918)
• Bluegrass and Broadway (1919)
• The Matrix (1920)
• Seven Times Seven (1924) (autobiography)
• History of Mercer and Boyle Counties (1924) (originally published as newspaper columns in the Harrodsburg Democrat)

External links

• Works by Maria Thompson Daviess at Project Gutenberg
• Maria Thompson Daviess at the Internet Movie Database
• Maria Thompson Daviess at the Internet Broadway Database