Helen Hunt Jackson

Poet

Birthday October 15, 1830

Birth Sign Libra

Birthplace Amherst, MA

DEATH DATE Aug 12, 1885 (54)

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About

A nineteenth-century American poet, novelist, and historian, she is known for works such as A Century of Dishonor, Ramona, and Glimpses of California. Her works often discuss government mismanagement and the mistreatment of Native Americans.

Before Fame

She attended both the Abbott Institute and the Ipswich Female Seminary.

Trivia

Several California high schools were named for Jackson, as well as for her fictional heroine, Ramona.

Family Life

She married U.S. Army Captain Edward Bissell Hunt in 1852. One of the couple's two sons died as an infant from a brain malady.

Associated With

She and Emily Dickinson were schoolmates.