Mary Davys (1674?–1732) was an Irish novelist and playwright. Davys was born in Ireland: nothing is known about her childhood, including her birth name...
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Look up Davys or davys in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Davys may refer to: Surname: Paul Davys, 1st Viscount Mount Cashell (1670–1716), Irish peer...
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(born 1958), American singer of the S.O.S. Band Mary Davys (1670s–1732), Irish novelist and playwright Mary Davies (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
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her work, Davys sought to create a realistic character details, focusing on moral development and reform of her heroes and heroines. Davys dedicated the...
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(heiress), wife of Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet Mary Davys (1670s–1732), Irish novelist and playwright Mary Davis (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
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Paradise Lost into German prose Elizabeth Boyd – The Happy-Unfortunate Mary Davys – The False Friend (fiction) Philip Doddridge – Sermons on the Religious...
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The Northern Heiress is a 1716 comedy by the Irish-born writer Mary Davys. Its fuller title is The Northern Heiress, or, The Humours of York. The play...
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eighteenth-century German composer Sir John Galliard, the protagonist of Mary Davys's The Accomplished Rake (1727) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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The Memoirs of Amoranda, is a novella, about 70 pages long, written by Mary Davys and published in 1724. It is an important work in helping to establish...
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Davy Jones' locker is a metaphor for the oceanic abyss, the final resting place of drowned sailors and travellers. It is a euphemism for drowning or shipwrecks...
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