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Davis, Mary F., active 19th century., [Mary Fenn Davis] / engraved by Samuel Sartain (Phila.) from an ambrotype by I. Rehn.
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Contributor
Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, engraver.
Rehn, Isaac, photographer.
Title
Davis, Mary F., active 19th century.
Alternate title
[Mary Fenn Davis] / engraved by Samuel Sartain (Phila.) from an ambrotype by I. Rehn.
Publisher
[Philadelphia? : s.n.]
Date
[1857?]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; 13.7 x 8.8 cm.
Description
Waist-length portrait of Mrs. Davis, dressed simply with a lace collar and a brooch at her neck.
Notes
In The magic staff : an autobiography of Andrew Jackson Davis (New York, 1857), plate opposite p. [19].
Facsimile signature: Mary F. Davis.
Mary Fenn Davis divorced her first husband, Samuel G. Love (1821-1893), in order to marry celebrity spiritualist Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910) in 1855. In 1885, Andrew Jackson Davis had their marriage annulled after he discovered that he had made a mistake thirty years earlier when he determined that he and Mary Fenn Davis were soul mates. He then married Della E. Markham (1839-1928). Already a temperance lecturer when she met Andrew Jackson Davis, Mary Fenn Davis worked alongside her husband in writing and editorial projects during their marriage.
Genre
Engravings -- 1850-1859.
Portrait prints -- 1850-1859.
Subject
Davis, Mary F., active 19th century -- Portraits.
Spiritualists.
Divorced women.
Women editors.
Women orators.
Women writers.
Women.
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Portraits of American Women
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