About Helen Hunt Jackson:
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her 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. Commercially popular, it was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times and most readers liked its romantic and picturesque qualities rather than its political content. The novel was so popular that it attracted many tourists to Southern California who wanted to see places from the book.
Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?
Helen Hunt JacksonIf I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.
Helen Hunt JacksonBut great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
Helen Hunt JacksonGreat loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
Helen Hunt JacksonMotherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
Helen Hunt Jackson