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Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was an American poet and activist. Born Helen Maria Fiske in Amherst, Massachusetts, she was raised in a unitarian family alongside a sister, Anne. B...view moreHelen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was an American poet and activist. Born Helen Maria Fiske in Amherst, Massachusetts, she was raised in a unitarian family alongside a sister, Anne. By seventeen years of age, she had lost both of her parents and was taken in by an uncle. Educated at Ipswich Female Seminar and the Abbott Institute, she was a classmate and friend of Emily Dickinson. At 22, she married Captain Edward Bissell Hunt, with whom she had two sons. Following the deaths of her children and husband, Hunt Jackson dedicated herself to poetry and moved to Newport in 1866. “Coronation” appeared in The Atlantic in 1869, launching Hunt Jackson’s career and helping her find publication in The Century, The Nation, and Independent. Following several years in Europe, she visited California and developed a fascination with the American West. After contracting tuberculosis, she stayed at Seven Falls, a treatment center in Colorado Springs, where she met her second husband William Sharpless Jackson. Praised early on for her elegiac verses by such figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hunt Jackson turned her attention to the plight of Native Americans in 1879 following a lecture in Boston by Ponca chief Standing Bear. She began to lobby government officials by mail and in person, launching and publishing her own investigations of systemic abuse in the New York Independent, Century Magazine, and the Daily Tribune. In 1881, she published A Century of Dishonor, a history of seven tribes who faced oppression, displacement, and genocide under American expansion. She sent her book to every member of Congress and continued to work as an activist and writer until her death from stomach cancer. Ramona (1884), a political novel, was described upon publication in the North American Review as “unquestionably the best novel yet produced by an American woman.”view less
Books by Helen Hunt Jackson
A Century of Dishonor Nelly's Silver Mine A Story of Colorado Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLetters from a Cat Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Century of Dishonor: The Classic Exposé of the Plight of the Native Americans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letters from a Cat Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHetty's Strange History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Calendar of Sonnets Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRamona Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings3 books to know Native American Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRamona Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ramona Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Audiobooks by Helen Hunt Jackson
Born in the USA - Exploring America in Poems - The New England Poets: A celebration of American poetry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRamona (version 2) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5November Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poet's Forge Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBits About Home Matters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFifty Shades of September: 50 of the best poems about the month of September Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJanuary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Calendar of Sonnets Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRamona Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Calendar of Sonnets (Version 2) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLetters from a Cat Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5