. . have rare merit of thought and expression and will reward the reader for the careful attention which they require."
In addition to her poetry Jackson was well known as a historian and as a writer for children and is especially remembered for her central role in the Indian reform movement and for her novel Ramona (1884), which popularized the issue of the Indian's plight. Her travel writing was also an important part of her career. Her first travel book, Bits of Travel (1872), was about her first experiences in Europe and provided the model for her subsequent efforts.
Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on 4 October 1830 to Nathan Welby Fiske, a professor of languages at Amherst College, and Deborah Vinal Fiske, Helen Maria Fiske was educated at a series of boarding schools. Her life was marked by the early deaths of people close to her. Fiske's parents died before she reached her twentieth birthday. After her marriage on 28 October 1852 to Edward Bissell Hunt, a mechanical engineer and army officer, the couple's first son died in infancy. Hunt died in an accident in 1863 while he was inspecting a submarine weapon he had invented, two years before Rennie's death.
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