The complete online text of Saxe Holm's Stories 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...

London Sax Riley may not have been the flashiest of Lloyd's chairmen or a high-profile figurehead for the market: he was notoriously press-shy and admitted he avoided the "fuss, pomp and circumstance" that goes with the job. In an interview with...

Contemporary jazz is dominated by youth, but two veterans, both receiving long overdue recognition, cross paths in the Boston area this weekend. Saxophonist Frank Morgan was the comeback story of the 1980s in jazz. A young phenom, known in jazz circles in...