[1] Her friend, Vita Sackville-West, described her as "a young woman of some enterprise and independence... having shaken herself free of ready-made traditions, to the dismay of her parents, in order to earn her own living".
[1] During the World War I, Davison worked in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) hospital in Kemsing, where she took charge of bookkeeping and supplies.
[2] Around 1937, Davison began work as assistant editor at The Geographical Magazine, founded two years earlier by Michael Huxley.
[1] She worked closely with the magazine's "literary advisor" John Lehmann, who described Davison as "one of the most intelligent women I have ever met, well-read, perceptive, witty and energetic".
[1] From this point on, while managing the challenges of wartime London, Davison steered the magazine into increasingly literary territory, with contributors including Sylvia Townsend Warner, Phyllis Bentley, V. S. Pritchett, Laurie Lee, and L. P.
[1] She left a collection of 1100 books, along with her own unpublished manuscript, to the British Federation of University Women's Sybil Campbell Library.