repressed. Her coming before the public was not with the intention of ever writing professionally, nor the pursuit of fame. A bridal compliment to a friend was so kindly received, that, by request from one and another editor, Daviess published many works in various newspapers, seldom under her own name, but signed by such a pen name as the passing fancy suggested. Her effusions were extensively copied, and complimented for their smooth flow of rhyme and almost redundant beauty of expression. "The Nun" was the most elaborate poem she ever published. "A Harvest Hymn" offers a spirit of gratitude. Most of Daviess’s manuscripts and copies of her published articles were destroyed by an accident. Roger Sherman, A Tale of '76 and Woman's Love, are her best-known stories. For some years after her marriage, in 1839, Daviess did not write much. The first works of Daviess’s revived authorship were "Roger Sherman — A Tale of ’76", and "Woman’s Love"; both very well-conceived and sustained stories. But her strong conviction that the plain, practical duties of life should command, if necessary, the whole of every woman’s time, tinged her themes. Her later writings seem to have been a kind of photograph of her everyday life. She received from the Kentucky State Agricultural Society a premium for the essay on the "Cultivation and Uses of Chinese Sugar-Cane," a product she was the first to introduce into the State, prophesying it would, as it did, become a staple of the West. Subsequently, she was awarded a diploma for an essay upon some literary theme by the National Fair, held in St. Louis in the 1860s. For some time, she was special contributor to several leading agricultural papers. She was a regular correspondent of The Country Gentleman and Coleman's Rural World. Her last contribution for The Country Gentleman was written on her eighty-second birthday. Her letters in these journals were among their most charming features. Daviess could please her readers with explanations of the useful as much as descriptions of the beautiful, often blending the two together in a manner thought to be quite her own. Starting in 1885 she taught at Daughters College in Harrodsburg, with colleagues including Zoe Anderson Norris. Many of Daviess' neighbors were unaware that she "wrote for publication," as she seemed to mingle literary habits easily with the responsibilities of a large family. Personal life In 1839, she married Maj.