Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson
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Short Name: Helen Hunt Jackson
Full Name: Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885
Birth Year: 1830
Death Year: 1885

Used pseudonym: Saxe Holm

Wikipedia Biography

Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her novel Ramona (1884) 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 se

Texts by Helen Hunt Jackson (8)AsAuthority Languagessort descendingInstances
Mother, I see you with your nursery lightHelen Hunt Jackson (Author)2
As when on some great mountain peak we standHelen Hunt Jackson (Author)English2
Blindfolded and alone I standHelen Hunt Jackson (Author)English2
Father, I scarcely dare to prayHelen Hunt Jackson (Author)English7
I cannot think but God must knowHelen Hunt Jackson (Author)English1
Like a blind spinner in the sunHelen Hunt Jackson (Author)English2
Like a cradle rocking, rocking, Silent, peaceful, to and froHelen Hunt Jackson (Author)English4
They bade me cast the thing awayHelen Hunt Jackson (Author)English2

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