[2] She graduated high school in 1910, taught for a year, and enrolled at University of California at Berkeley in 1911.

[3] After settling in New York, she was destitute, and resorted to writing stories and poetry to make ends meet and survive.

[6] Eventually, Davies returned to Portland, and became the president of the state's women's press club in 1920 and of the Northwest Poetry Society in 1924.

[4] She also published a play, The Slave with Two Faces (1918),[4] which was staged with actors Dorothy Upjohn, Blanche Hays, Hutchinson Collins, Otto Liveright, Alice Macdougal, and Ida Rauh.

[10] However, contributions from friends and anonymous sources brought her back to health and she lived until 1974, when she died on May 19, in a nursing home.