Frances Gardiner Davenport

Francis Gardiner Davenport (November 1870 - November 11, 1927) was an American historian specializing in the late Middle Ages and European colonization of the New World. Born in 1870. Davenport was educated at Barnard College and Radcliffe, after which she continued her studies in England before she completed her doctoral dissertation in 1904. from the University of Chicago. Davenport's first published work was a classified list of printed sources for English manorial and agrarian history in the Middle Ages, prepared under the direction of William Ashley of Harvard. Her later work on English history included The Economic Development of Norfolk Manor 1086–1565, published by Cambridge University Press in 1906. For many years, she edited her opus Magnum Opus, which was finally published by the Carnegie Institution as European Treaties Related to the History of the United States and its Dependencies until 1648 (1917), and as a second volume covering 1650–1697 (1929), and was still working on further volumes when she died on November 11, 1927. They were completed by Charles O. Pollin.