Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885)
Autore di Ramona
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Opere di Helen Hunt Jackson
Bits of Travel at Home 7 copie
Bits of Travel 4 copie
Verses 3 copie
Ramona Pageant Association, Inc. .. Presents : Ramona, California's Greatest Outdoor Play, 1971 (1971) 2 copie
Sonnets and Lyrics 2 copie
Jackson, Helen Hunt Archive 1 copia
Ramona, Volume I 1 copia
Ramona, Volume II 1 copia
Book of Job, The 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West (1991) — Collaboratore — 260 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Jackson, Helen Maria Hunt (married)
Fiske, Helen Maria (born) - Altri nomi
- Holm, Saxe
H.H. - Data di nascita
- 1830-10-15
- Data di morte
- 1885-08-12
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di morte
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
San Francisco, California, USA (death)
Colorado, USA - Attività lavorative
- poet
novelist - Relazioni
- Dickinson, Emily (friend)
- Breve biografia
- Helen Maria Fiske was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, the daugher of a minister and professor at Amherst College. She was a school friend of Emily Dickinson, and the two correspondended all their lives. In 1852, she married Edward Bissell Hunt, a military officer, with whom she had two sons. Following the premature deaths of her husband and her children, Helen remarried in 1875 to William Sharpless Jackson, a wealthy banker. She took the name Jackson and published some of her works as Helen Hunt Jackson, anonymously, or under the pseudonym "Saxe Holm." Her first novel Mercy Philbrick’s Choice (1876) is considered a fictionalized portrait of her friend Emily Dickinson. It was followed by Ramona (1884), which became extremely popular and is the work for which she's best-known today. Along with Ramona, her book Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with some of the Indian Tribes (1881), championed the rights of Native Americans, a cause she supported for many years. Many of Helen Hunt Jackson's stories, poems, and personal reminiscences were collected and published posthumously in Sonnets and Lyrics, Glimpses of Three Coasts (1886) and Between Whiles (1886). She died at the age of 54.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 50
- Opere correlate
- 11
- Utenti
- 1,246
- Popolarità
- #20,595
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 23
- ISBN
- 203
- Lingue
- 2
This is one I have never heard of before until my daughter, just a couple of weeks ago went hiking on the Seven Falls Trail to Inspiration Point in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and ran across a memorial for this author, Helen Hunt Jackson. She immediately sent me a screenshot, knowing two things about me: I love graves, and I love reading, which this book, “Ramona” was mentioned on her memorial. What we didn’t notice in the photo, at first, was that the author and I share the exact same birthday, October 15th, except she was born 130 years before me. So, of course, I HAD to read her book.
After the death of Helen’s first husband and two sons, she met and married her second husband in Colorado Springs. They moved to San Francisco where she became an activist for the rights of the Native Americans, which she wrote about in a previous book, A Century of Dishonor (1881). And three years later, she would write this romance novel, Ramona (1884), based on the prejudices and racism from the migrating Americans to the west, and also the prejudices from the Mexicans, just as the Mexican-American War for the California territory was ending in 1846.
I will now have to add her book, A Century of Dishonor, which depicts these governments exploits to find out her truths. I do believe the things shown in this novel could and probably did happen, knowing the nature of mankind, and also for the fact that my ancestors, the Acadians, experienced a very similar fate up in Nova Scotia in 1755, a whole century earlier, an event known by all Cajuns of today as the Great Deportation.
The story line was actually pretty good, better than some of the other classics I’ve read. But, when I got to the last 1/3 of the book, the author completely failed in trying to write a southern Tennessee accent. It could have been forgiven if it hadn’t been used so extensively and in such lengthy paragraphs. I struggled to decipher just exactly what was being said, and I’m from the south. All in all, I’d give another shot at another book written by this author.
I also have a free eBook from Amazon on my Kindle...4/12/2021.… (altro)