Word: daviess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Maria Thompson Daviess, 52, artist and author; in the National Arts Club, Manhattan; of heartdisease...
Maria Thompson Daviess (whose autobiographical narrative Seven Times Seven is appearing in the Pictorial Re-view and soon to be published in book form) is an invalid; but, in spite of the fact that she is confined to her room most of the time, she is the gayest, the most effervescent of women. When I saw her the other day she was busily planning to take up again her favorite work of "play-doctoring" which she did for years. Said she: "Just because I can't move about is no reason why I can't sit still...
...autobiography will be read by thousands because I've already dipped into it-it is the chatty story of a woman's life, a rather unusual woman, told with utter frankness. There is no false attempt at cleverness. Sentiment has its due place. Curiously enough, Mrs. Daviess says that she has received more letters from men than from women in response to the serial publication of her narrative-and that most of them have been remedies for rheumatism...