Maria Thompson Daviess was a Kentucky author who wrote popular comedies of manners drawing on the social contrasts between Southern culture and the broader American world. Blue-grass and Broadway, published in 1920, plays on the comic clash between Kentucky small-town values and the glamour of New York — a theme that gave Daviess’s work much of its warmth and gentle humor.
Widely read in her day and possessed of genuine regional charm, her fiction is now a freely available public-domain EPUB at Better Gutenberg.