Helen Hunt Jackson

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Helen Hunt Jackson


Born
in Amherst, Massachusetts, The United States
October 18, 1830

Died
August 12, 1885


People know American writer Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson for Ramona (1884), a romantic novel concerning the injustices that Native Americans suffered.

This author, an activist for rights, wrote best about the ill treatment in southern California.

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Average rating: 3.74 · 3,174 ratings · 498 reviews · 122 distinct worksSimilar authors
Ramona

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3.76 avg rating — 2,531 ratings — published 1884 — 482 editions
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Letters from a Cat

3.60 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 1879 — 118 editions
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A Century of Dishonor: A Sk...

3.84 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 1881 — 193 editions
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A Calendar of Sonnets

3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1886 — 71 editions
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Nelly's Silver Mine: A Stor...

3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1878 — 97 editions
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Mammy Tittleback and Her Fa...

3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010 — 37 editions
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Ramona and Other Novels by ...

4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012
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Mercy Philbrick's Choice (1...

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Colorado: Bits of Travel at...

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Bits About Home Matters

4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000 — 53 editions
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“The goldenrod is yellow,
The corn is turning brown...
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.”
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“Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? ”
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“The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.”
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Polls

October 2019 Old School Poll

A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy 1873, 374 pages
 
  78 votes, 27.5%

Germinal by Émile Zola 1885, 592 pages
 
  69 votes, 24.3%

 
  56 votes, 19.7%

Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1864, 477 pages
 
  35 votes, 12.3%

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson 1884, 432 pages
 
  24 votes, 8.5%

A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald 1791, 384 pages
 
  22 votes, 7.7%

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