Helen Hunt Jackson
Novelist, Author
1830 – 1885
Who was Helen Hunt Jackson?
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske, was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor. Her novel Ramona dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican-American War and attracted considerable attention to her cause. Commercially popular, it was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times and most readers liked its romantic and picturesque qualities rather than its political content. The novel was so popular that it attracted many tourists to Southern California who wanted to see places from the book.
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- Born
- Oct 18, 1830
Amherst - Also known as
- Helen Fiske
- Helen H. Jackson
- Spouses
- William Henry Jackson
(1875 - )
- William Henry Jackson
- Ethnicity
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Ipswich Female Seminary
- Lived in
- Amherst
- Died
- Aug 12, 1885
San Francisco
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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