Ella Fraser Weller

Ella Fraser Weller was an American poet whose surviving published work is closely tied to children and home life. She is best known for Nestlings: A Collection of Poems, a book made available through Project Gutenberg and other library archives, where her writing comes across as affectionate, simple, and written with a clear love of childhood.

The poems in Nestlings focus on babies, young children, and small domestic moments. That gives her work the feel of a keepsake album as much as a poetry collection, with short pieces that are easy to read aloud and shaped by warmth rather than literary showiness.

Not much biographical information about her was easy to confirm from reliable online library sources, so her published work remains the clearest window into her life and voice. Even so, the poems that remain suggest a writer interested in preserving the sweetness, imagination, and fleeting beauty of early childhood.