Maria Thompson Daviess (November 28, 1872 – September 3, 1924) was an American artist and feminist author.

[2] Maria (sometimes "Marie")[3] Thompson Daviess was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, November 28, 1872.

The father, John B. T. Daviess, died when she was eight, and the family subsequently relocated to Nashville, Tennessee.

Her paternal grandmother, also named Maria Thompson Daviess, was a columnist and lecturer.

She resided in Nashville, Tennessee in 1910,[1] but in 1921, she moved to New York City, where she died in September 1924.