Jennie Eliza Davis, known professionally as Jane E. Davis (June 11, 1857 – October 31, 1935) was an American educator, writer, and editor. She taught at

Hampton Institute Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missiona ...

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. She edited the ''

Southern Workman ''Southern Workman'' was a monthly magazine published in the United States by the Hampton Institute Press at Hampton Institute. The press was founded in 1871 and the ''Southern Workman'' began publication in 1872. For a time it was known as the S ...

'' and became head of Hampton Institute Press. She was born and raised in

Troy, New York Troy is a city in and the county seat of Rensselaer County, New York, United States. It is located on the western edge of the county, on the eastern bank of the Hudson River just northeast of the capital city of Albany, New York, Albany. At the ...

. Fisher Davis and Charles Davis were her parents. She graduated from

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States. The college be ...

in 1878.

Publications

*''Round about Jamestown: Historical Sketches of the Lower Virginia Peninsula'' (1907) *''Jamestown and Her Neighbors on Virginia's Historic Peninsula'' (1928)

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1857 births 1935 deaths Vassar College alumni Hampton University faculty People from Troy, New York 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American women writers American magazine editors {{US-editor-stub