Helen Hunt Jackson (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Kate Phillips
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1830-1885
- Setting: Amherst, Massachusetts; Boston; New York City; Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Southern California
- Principal Characters: Helen Hunt Jackson, Edward Hunt, William Sharpless Jackson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Nathan Welby Fiske, Deborah Vinal Fiske
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, California, Native Americans or American Indians, Novelists, Colorado, Unitarianism, Transcendentalism, Massachusetts
- Locales: New York, NY, Boston, MA, Southern California, Colorado, Amherst, MA
Helen Hunt Jackson is one of the largely forgotten American writers of the nineteenth century, although she is remembered for her popular romance, Ramona (1884). As Kate Phillips amply demonstrates in her biography of the author, Jackson deserves better. She was a prolific writer of essays, travel pieces, poetry, short fiction, and novels and an indefatigable writer of letters, often to the powerful and famous in support of the many causes to which she dedicated the later portion of her life. If for no other reason, her untiring efforts on behalf of the Mission Indians of...
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