The Corvey Novels Project at the University of Nebraska
— Studies in British Literature of the Romantic Period —
Biographical Information about Selina Davenport
Selina Davenport (1779-after1856)
Selina Davenport was born in 1779, the daughter of Capt. Charles Granville Wheler of Kent. Selina married a writer named Richard Alfred Davenport in 1800 and later left him for "sufficient reasons". Davenport then used writing as a means of support for her two daughters and herself. Through her entire writing career, Davenport published only eleven novels, her first in 1813 and her last in 1834. Ending her last novel will illness and "blight of hopes", Davenport decided to quit writing. She later supported her two daughters by working in the shop of a friend in Knutsford, Cheshire.
SOURCE
Blain, V. et al. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English Women Writers From Middle Ages to Present. New Haven: Yale UP, 1990.
-Prepared by Catherine Henkenius, University of Nebraska, December 2002.