Born in Zagorice (now Bled), she travelled extensively through the Austrian Empire and, later the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, living in Ljubljana, Vienna and Kassel, initially with her mother and then later her husband, the violinist Karl Jeraj.

Much of her work was tragic, particularly following the death of her son in 1906, and her poetry covered a wide range of topics, and was influenced by literary modernism, Biblical themes and fairy tales.

In the 1920s, she returned to Ljubljana and was active in the Drustva Slovenkih Leposlovcev Socialnogospodarskega in Kulturnega Zenskega (Women's Social, Economic and Cultural Association of Slovenia), and died in 1932.

Jeraj was born in Zagorice (now Bled) in the Austrian Empire on 31 March 1860, the daughter of France Vovk and Neza, a native of Kropa.

[3][4] Her style reflected the literary modernism that was common at the time and was also informed by fairy tales and folklore, which gave her poetry a popularity amongst the Slovenian people, particularly in the emerging nationalism that led to the foundation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

She resumed writing for children, and helped found the Drustva Slovenkih Leposlovcev Socialnogospodarskega in Kulturnega Zenskega (Women's Social, Economic and Cultural Association of Slovenia).