The complete online text of Bits about Home Matters by Helen Hunt Jackson.

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 15, 1830, in Amherst, Mass. Her father taught Latin,...

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 Indian Tribes (1881) and Ramona: A Story (1884). Before J...

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 as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson. For two dec...

Byline: Mike Littwin, Rocky Mountain News Shhhh. If we're going to talk about this, we're going to have to keep it quiet - on the down low, as the kids say. Nobody wants to discuss it - not aloud, anyway...

Gray Line Tours aren't the only way to see Washington. A stroll around the property owned by Reinaldo Lopez and his wife, Patricia Ghiglino, in tiny Shady Side, Md., amounts to hitting a multitude of historic and architectural highlights of the nation's capital....