[5] Sons of the Viscount, and the Daughters of the Earl (1813) has a typical plot of family enmity and seduction and involves two sisters who fall in love with two brothers.

Italian Vengeance and English Forbearance (1828) features an avenging woman who shoots her seducer dead in a duel.

[2] One literary critic has commented that Italian Vengeance "use[s] Gothic tropes to sensationalize a domestic novel of manners.

"[6] In addition to writing novels, Davenport supported her family financially with various business ventures that included running a coffee house and a dance school.

[2] Davenport abandoned writing in 1834 and thereafter supported her widowed daughters by running a tiny shop in Knutsford, Cheshire, the town on which Gaskell based her famous novel Cranford.