Mary Ella Waller

Mary Ella Waller (March 1, 1855 – June 14, 1938) was an American writer and educator from New England whose work encompassed children's stories, translations of German verse and more than twenty novels.

Biography Waller was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1855. Her mother was Mary Doane Hallet of Cape Cod and her father was David Waller of Vermont. Many of her novels were written in and set in Vermont.

Waller was a social Darwinist in outlook; seeing life as a competition in which the fittest succeed. However, this did not prevent her expressing sympathy with the downtrodden in her writings. Though she continued to write and publish works into her old age, the popularity of Waller's particular brand of fiction declined after World War One with the public and critics alike.

Notable works The Rose-bush of Hildesheim (1889) Giotto's Sheep (1889) From an Island Outpost The Little Citizen (1902) Sanna: A Novel Out of the Silences Through the Gates of the Netherlands (1906) The Wood-Carver of 'Lympus (1904) A Cry in the Wilderness My Ragpicker (1911) A daughter of the rich Aunt Dorcas's Change of Heart (1913) The windmill on the dune (1931). Deep in the Hearts of Men. A novel (1924) Flamsted Quarries (1910) A year out of life Our Benny Not content with writing over twenty novels, Waller also patented a foot warmer.

Death Waller died at the age of 83 in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1938.