Ella Fuller Maitland

Ella Fuller Maitland (née Ella Sophia Mary Chester; 8 January 1857 – 15 November 1939) was a British novelist and poet, who had considerable success as a writer in the 1890s.

Life Ella Sophia Mary Chester was born in London on 8 January 1857, the daughter of Harry Chester, a civil servant and the founder of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution. She married Robert Fuller-Maitland, and the couple lived in Sidmouth, Devon. 1899's The Etchingham Letters, written with Sir Frederick Pollock, was an epistolary novel. Godfrey Frank Singer wrote that:in The Etchingham Letters (1899), we find a literary correspondence which... is a collaboration. The authors are Sir Frederick Pollock and Ella Fuller Maitland. The two do not seem to have made any obvious division of labor, but to have written together in all the letters regardless of the pretended writer. There is a definite eighteenth-century tone to this book.

Death Ella Fuller Maitland died on 15 November 1939. In her will, she left £500 to the National Trust; £300 to the RSPCA; £300 to the Men of the Trees: £209 to Our Dumb Friends League; £200 to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; and £200 to the Council for the Preservation of Rural England.

Works

Parva [poems] (1886) Verse: rustic and elegiac (1890) Pages from the Day-book of Bethia Hardacre (1895) The Saltonstall Gazette (1896) The Song-book of Bethia Hardacre (1897)

Blanche Esmead: a Story of Diverse Temperaments (1906) More Pages from the Day-book of Bethia Hardacre (1907) By Land and Water (1911) The Clere Family: 1927-1928 with R. Spence Bernard (1929)