HELEN MARIA

See also:

• JACKSON
• JACKSON, ANDREW (1767-1845)
• JACKSON, CYRIL (1746-1819)
• JACKSON, FREDERICK GEORGE (186o– )
• HELEN MARIA JACKSON (1831–1885)
• JACKSON, MASON (c. 1820-1903)
• JACKSON, THOMAS (1579-1640)
• JACKSON, THOMAS JONATHAN (1824-1863)
• JACKSON, WILLIAM (1730-1803)

JACKSON (1831–1885)  , American poet and novelist, who wrote under the intials of " H . H." (Helen Hunt), was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on the 18th of October 1831, the daughter of Nathan Welby Fiske (1798–1847), who was a professor in Amherst College . In October 1852 she married Lieutenant Edward Bissell Hunt (1822–1863), of the U.S. corps of engineers . In 187o she published a little volume of meditative Verses, which was praised by Emerson in the preface to his Parnassus (1874) . In 1875 she married William S . Jackson, a banker, of Colorado Springs . She became a prolific writer of prose and verse, including juvenile tales, books of travel, household hints and novels, of which the best is Ramona (1884), a defence of the Indian character . In 1883, as a special commissioner with Abbot Kinney (b. r85o), she investigated the condition and needs of the Mission Indians in California . A Century of Dishonor (1881) was an arraignment of the treatment of the Indians by the United States . She died on the 12th of August 1885 in San Francisco . In addition to her publications referred to above, Mercy Phil-brick's Choice (1876), Hefty's Strange History (1877), Zeph (1886), and Sonnets and Lyrics (1886) may be mentioned .