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...

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...

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 her second son, Rennie, died of diphtheria. Her...

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 of Dishonor (1881), and the novel Ramona (1884),...

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...