Helen Hunt Jackson Summary

Helen Hunt Jackson Born October 14, 1830 Amherst, Massachusetts Died August 12, 1885 San Francisco, California Writer and activist for Native American rights Helen Hunt Jackson. Library of Congres... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more

In the following essay, Marsden presents a brief overview of Jackson's life and works and comments that it wasn’t until Jackson became involved with Native American affairs that her rema... Read more