Career
Amongst her collections is the type specimen of the endangered Acacia volubilis. The type specimen of the rare Acacia anarthros, and the earliest known collection of Banksia cuneata. All of Wells" specimens are recorded as having been collected at "Boxvale".
This is now a lost toponym.
According to Bruce Maslin it was "somewhere East of York, perhaps near the Cubbine Hills between Cunderdin and Quairading". Little is known of her personal life.
She had a daughter, Florence South. Harris, and died on 8 July 1911 at Perth Public Hospital, aged 68.