Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885)
Author of Ramona
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Works by Helen Hunt Jackson
Bits of Travel at Home 7 copies
Bits of Travel 4 copies
Verses 3 copies
Sonnets and Lyrics 2 copies
The growth of the Old Testament 2 copies
Ramona Pageant Association, Inc. .. Presents : Ramona, California's Greatest Outdoor Play, 1971 (1971) 2 copies
Book of Job, The 1 copy
My Day in the Wilderness 1 copy
Jackson, Helen Hunt Archive 1 copy
Ramona, Volume I 1 copy
Ramona, Volume II 1 copy
Associated Works
The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West (1991) — Contributor — 264 copies, 1 review
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- Legal name
- Jackson, Helen Maria Hunt (married)
Fiske, Helen Maria (born) - Other names
- Holm, Saxe
H.H. - Birthdate
- 1830-10-15
- Date of death
- 1885-08-12
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- Place of death
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
San Francisco, California, USA (death)
Colorado, USA - Occupations
- poet
novelist - Relationships
- Dickinson, Emily (friend)
- Short biography
- Helen Maria Fiske was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, the daugher of a minister and professor at Amherst College. She was a school friend of Emily Dickinson, and the two correspondended all their lives. In 1852, she married Edward Bissell Hunt, a military officer, with whom she had two sons. Following the premature deaths of her husband and her children, Helen remarried in 1875 to William Sharpless Jackson, a wealthy banker. She took the name Jackson and published some of her works as Helen Hunt Jackson, anonymously, or under the pseudonym "Saxe Holm." Her first novel Mercy Philbrick’s Choice (1876) is considered a fictionalized portrait of her friend Emily Dickinson. It was followed by Ramona (1884), which became extremely popular and is the work for which she's best-known today. Along with Ramona, her book Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with some of the Indian Tribes (1881), championed the rights of Native Americans, a cause she supported for many years. Many of Helen Hunt Jackson's stories, poems, and personal reminiscences were collected and published posthumously in Sonnets and Lyrics, Glimpses of Three Coasts (1886) and Between Whiles (1886). She died at the age of 54.
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