American poetess, born at Plattsburg, NY, on the 26th of March 1823. Her career closely resembled that of her sister, Lucretia M. Davidson. Her education was conducted by her mother, the family frequently changing their residence for the sake of health. When she was ten years old she wrote in two days The Tragedy of Alethia for performance by herself and some little friends. Washington Irving says: “It contained within it sufficient of high character and astounding and bloody incident to furnish out a drama of five times its size.” Her earnest desire was to fill her sister’s place, and one of her most touching poems is addressed to Lucretia. Symptoms of consumption manifested themselves when she was twelve years old, and the disease pursued its course till her death, at Saratoga, on the 25th of November 1838. Her poems were published, with an interesting memoir, by Washington Irving, and the works of both sisters were collected in one volume in 1850.
