City: Nashville
DAVIESS, Maria Thompson, author; spent several years in Paris, France, studying under the leading masters where she made a specialty of miniature painting and artistic photography, several of her miniatures being hung in the salon; upon her return home she began to write sketches and stories for magazines, and put aside every other interest and devoted herself to literary endeavor; author of “Miss Selina Lue;” member of Tennessee Woman’s Press and Authors’ Club, the Nashville Art Association and other organizations.
