Cecilia Viets Jamison (1837 – April 11, 1909) was a Canadian-born American writer. The daughter of Viets and Elizabeth Bruce Dakin, she was born Cecilia Viets Dakin in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and moved to Boston with her family during her mid-teens. She studied at private schools in Canada, New York City, Boston and Paris. Following her first marriage, Jamison went on to study art in Rome for three years. There, she met Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who encouraged her in her writing and supported the publication of her book Woven of Many Threads in 1872. On her return to the United States, she participated in the literary salon of Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis. Jamison contributed to Harper's Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, Appletons' Journal, St. Nicholas Magazine and the Journal of American Folkl