Helen Hunt Jackson

Mary Briscoe (University of Pittsburgh)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.2: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth Century, 1783-1900.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

Dates

Born 18 Oct 1830
Died 12 Aug 1885
Activity 1865-1885

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Children's/Young Adult writer
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Reformer
Story-writer
Travel writer

Resources

Jackson's Works

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Helen Hunt Jackson's novel,

Ramona

(1884), sold more than 15,000 copies before her death ten months after it was published, and has been reprinted more than three hundred times since then. One of the most popular and prolific women writers of her time, Jackson intended

Ramona

and

A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes

(1881) to stir public outrage for the plight of American Indians who had been driven into poverty by government policy. Both books are still in print.

Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson was born on 14 October 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, the first child of Nathan Welby Fiske, a minister and professor of Latin and Greek at Amherst College, and Deborah Vinal Fiske of Boston. Raised in a circle of educated,

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Citation: Briscoe, Mary. "Helen Hunt Jackson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 April 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5706, accessed 22 November 2024.]