WRITER

Helen Hunt Jackson

1830 - 1885

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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 popular 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helen Hunt Jackson has received more than 433,943 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Helen Hunt Jackson is the 6,291st most popular writer, the 11,182nd most popular biography from United States and the 821st most popular American Writer.

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  • 42.11

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.10

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  • 3.09

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Notable Works

A century of dishonor
1995
Ramona
California, fiction, Indians of north america, fiction, Fiction, romance, historical
2004
A century of dishonor
Politics and government, Race relations, Indians of North America
A Century of Dishonor exposes how various people, from the military personnel to the government official, viewed Native Americans. Jackson outlines treaties between the federal government and various Native American tribes, treaties that were supposed to protect the rights of the Native American people and “ensure” them title to their lands, but were broken by the United States Government. She also tells of massacres, citing letters written by members of the United States military, detailing the horrendous acts committed against Native American women and children. When it was published in 1885, A Century of Dishonor created such a stir that the U.S. Department of the Interior appointed Jackson and Abbot Kinney to investigate the conditions of Native Americans in missions in California.
1881
Ramona
Fiction, Girls, History
A moving love story with grand melodramatic touches, Ramona was linked with Uncle Tom's Cabin as one of the great ethical novels of the 19th century. A bestseller in 1884, Ramona was both a political and literary success and will continue to move modern readers with its sympathetic characters and its depiction of the Native American's struggle in the early West.
1884
Between Whiles
Fiction, general, Siblings, fiction
2007
Saxe Holm's stories
Fiction, Social life and customs, History
volumes 1 ; 21 cm
1873

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Helen Hunt Jackson ranks 6,291 out of 7,302. Before her are Susan Glaspell, Karel Schoeman, Richard A. Knaak, Mathias Énard, Naomi Mitchison, and Sybille Bedford. After her are Tim O'Brien, Abby Mann, Paul Klebnikov, Delfina Bunge, Lascelles Abercrombie, and Colleen Hoover.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Helen Hunt Jackson ranks 75. Before her are Emily Davies, Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual, Abraham Jacobi, Oliver Otis Howard, Nain Singh, and Harriet Hosmer. After her are Belva Ann Lockwood, Frederic Moore, John Douglas, and Ezra Meeker. Among people deceased in 1885, Helen Hunt Jackson ranks 81. Before her are Juan Bautista Topete, José Posada Herrera, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony W. Gardiner, Nísia Floresta, and Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen. After her are John McCloskey, Titian Peale, and Robert Toombs.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen Hunt Jackson ranks 11,182 out of 20,380. Before her are Ann Robinson (1929), Glen Keane (1954), Carmel Myers (1899), Gabriel Mann (1972), Brian Welch (1970), and Meaghan Martin (1992). After her are Adam Jones (1965), Tim O'Brien (1946), George Tobias (1901), Alice Terry (1900), Isabelle Fuhrman (1997), and Dwight Frye (1899).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Helen Hunt Jackson ranks 821. Before her are Tillie Olsen (1912), John Clellon Holmes (1926), Alexei Panshin (1940), P. C. Cast (1960), Susan Glaspell (1876), and Richard A. Knaak (1961). After her are Tim O'Brien (1946), Abby Mann (1927), Paul Klebnikov (1963), Colleen Hoover (1979), Lynne Cox (1957), and Wayne C. Booth (1921).

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