{"id":1054,"date":"2012-10-11T18:41:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2017-12-18T10:51:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T17:51:41","slug":"davis-mary-evelyn-moore-1852-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"DAVIS, MARY EVELINA MOORE, 1844-1909"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer; editor, socialite. Born– April 12, 1844 in White Plains, Benton County (became Calhoun County, 1858).\u00a0 Parents– John and Marian Lucinda (Crutchfield) Moore. Married– Thomas Edward Davis, October 20, 1874.\u00a0 Educated at home by her mother and intermittently at local schools in Alabama and Texas, where her family moved in 1855. Continued her education as an adult by studying music, French, and other subjects with tutors. Employed as “second assistant” teacher at Professor Hand’s Charnwood School in Tyler, Texas, 1860-61.\u00a0 Began publishing poems on patriotic and other themes in Texas newspapers in the 1860’s; published her first volume of poetry in 1867. Wrote fiction and poetry throughout her life; employed as an editor on the New Orleans Picayune.\u00a0 Moved to New Orleans in 1879 with her husband, editor of the New Orleans Times and later editor-in-chief of the New Orleans Picayune; maintained a literary salon at her home on Royal Street. Died January 1, 1909.<\/p>\n

Source; <\/strong><\/p>\n

Dictionary of American Biography; American Authors and Books; Who Was Who in Alabama.<\/p>\n

Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Antiques: A Rare Collection from Old Creole Families.\u00a0 New Orleans:\u00a0 A. H. Thiberge Printing Co., 1894.<\/p>\n

A Bunch of Roses.\u00a0 Boston: Small, Maynard, and Co., 1903.<\/p>\n

A Christmas Masque of Saint Roch.\u00a0 Chicago: McClurg, 1896.<\/p>\n

An Elephant’s Track, and Other Stories.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Harper, 1897.<\/p>\n

In War Times at La Rose Blanche.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 D. Lathrop Co., 1888.<\/p>\n

Jaconetta: Her Loves.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Houghton, 1901.<\/p>\n

The Little Chevalier.\u00a0 Boston:\u00a0 Houghton, 1903.<\/p>\n

Minding the Gap, and Other Poems.\u00a0 Houston:\u00a0 Cushing and Co., 1867.<\/p>\n

The Moons of Balbanca.. Boston: Houghton, 1908.<\/p>\n

Poems.\u00a0 Houston:\u00a0 E. H. Cushing, 1872.<\/p>\n

The Price of Silence. Boston:\u00a0 Houghton, 1907.<\/p>\n

The Queen’s Garden.\u00a0 Boston: Houghton, 1900.<\/p>\n

Selected Poems. New\u00a0 Orleans:\u00a0 Green Shutter Book Shop, 1927.<\/p>\n

The Wire Cutters.\u00a0 Boston: Houghton, 1899.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Writer; editor, socialite. Born– April 12, 1844 in White Plains, Benton County (became Calhoun County, 1858).\u00a0 Parents– John and Marian Lucinda (Crutchfield) Moore. Married– Thomas Edward Davis, October 20, 1874.\u00a0 Educated at home by her mother and intermittently at local schools in Alabama and Texas, where her family moved in 1855. Continued her education […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7273,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/7273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}