Ann Davies

Ann Lorraine Davies (2 October 1914 – 9 January 1954), also known as Ann Lindsay, was a British actress and translator. She translated Émile Zola's controversial novel La Terre (1887; The Earth) in the 1950s.

Life Davies was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1914 to Sarah Ann and Morgan Davies, as one of three children. She went to school locally, before going on to University College, Cardiff in 1932. There she was vice-president of the Students Union and toured America in the 1936 Welsh Hockey team. Her degree was in French.

She became a clerk at Harrods whilst appearing as Robin Hood (the Principal Boy) in the Unity Theatre's political version of Babes in the Wood, which lampooned Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy and had Davies in a Russian uniform. The production ran for seven months and Montagu Slater credited the play with making political change. Davies rose to lead the company. In October 1942, she also became the first woman to be president of the Unity Theatre. After the war, they both toured Russia and nearby countries together. They moved from London to Castle Hedingham in Essex in 1951, Having undergone further surgery to remove her ovaries following a re-occurrence of cancer, she died at their home in Castle Hedingham on 9 January 1954, aged 39.