Helen Hunt Jackson
Born October 14, 1830
Amherst, Massachusetts
Died August 12, 1885
San Francisco, California
Writer and activist for Native American rights
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Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was an American author of fiction whose most famous novel, Ramona, dramatized the plight of California's Indians.Helen Hunt Jackson was born Helen Marie Fiske on October...
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Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson, a versatile and prolific writer, was popular with a large and devoted reading public, praised by most contemporary critics, and acclaimed by such key literary figures a...
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Praised in the nineteenth century for poetry and prose which has now slipped into obscurity, Helen Hunt Jackson is remembered for her chronicles of the mistreatment of the American Indian, A Century o...
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One of the most prolific women writers of her time, Helen Hunt Jackson hoped to be remembered mainly for A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Ind...
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Helen Hunt Jackson, one of the most versatile and widely admired popular authors of the latter part of the nineteenth century, did not begin writing until she was thirty-five years old, shortly after ...
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