In 2018, the New York Times published a belated obituary as part of its Overlooked series.

She once turned down a side street to avoid the local vicar seeing her cycling.

She published her “Handbook for Lady Cyclists” in 1896 and encouraged women to wear more practical rational dress to make physical activity easier.

[2] She lived for a time with Alice Werner, a teacher of Bantu, and Ménie Muriel Dowie, a British writer of the New Woman school.

According to the New York Times: The writer Ethel F. Heddle novelized their experience in her 1896 book, “Three Girls in a Flat,” in which she described the ambivalent experience when the freedom of living alone collides with “the sordid, matter-of-fact worries incident on having very little money.”[1] Davidson published 14 novels and many articles.