biography
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Jackson, Helen (Maria) Hunt
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née Fiske
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| female
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| lived:
| (1830–85)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. She turned to writing after the deaths of her first husband and two sons, remarried (1875), and settled in Colorado. A campaigner for American Indian rights, she highlighted the injustices of government policy in her book A Century of Dishonor (1881). She was appointed to a Federal Commission to investigate the Indian question, and the experience provided material for her successful novel Ramona (1884), which aroused social awareness but was acclaimed mainly for its nostalgic portrayal of old California. |
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