Margaret Miller Davidson

Margaret Miller Davidson was born March 26, 1823, in Plattsburg, New York. She was the youngest daughter of Oliver and Margaret Davidson. Margaret was tutored by her mother and never sent to school. Throughout her life, Davidson cared for her frequently ill mother and studied languages, philosophy, and history, in addition to writing poems and a diary. Davidson died November 25, 1838, in Saratoga. ==Legacy==

Washington Irving wrote Biography and poetical remains of the late Margaret Miller Davidson in 1841; by 1864 the book had twenty editions. Irving described meeting her at age eleven: "There was an intellectual beauty about this child that struck me." Edgar Allan Poe reviewed Davidson's work favorably, describing her longest poem, Lenore, "As the work of so mere a child, it is unquestionably wonderful." In the 1971 biographical dictionary Notable American Women, scholar Carlin T. Kindilien wrote about the Davidson sisters' contemporary success: ==References==