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Ella Fraser Weller
A little-known 19th-century poet, remembered for warm, gentle verses about childhood, family, and the everyday wonder of young lives. Her surviving work feels intimate and affectionate, with the tone of someone writing from close observation and care.
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Nestlings A Collection of Poems
by Ella Fraser Weller
About the author
Ella Fraser Weller is known today chiefly for Nestlings: A Collection of Poems, published in San Francisco in 1892. Records from Project Gutenberg, HathiTrust, and The Online Books Page all point to that book as her principal surviving work, which has helped keep her name in circulation for modern readers.
Nestlings is a poetry collection centered on children, home life, and maternal feeling. Its original front matter says the book was illustrated by K. A. Fraser from pictures of children in the author's immediate circle of friends, and it was dedicated to those children, which gives the collection a personal, close-to-home quality.
Very little reliable biographical information about her appears to be widely available online, so it is safest to remember her through the work itself rather than through unconfirmed life details. What does come through clearly is her interest in childhood, tenderness, and the emotional texture of family life.