Helen Hunt Jackson A Literary Life

Name: Helen Hunt Jackson A Literary Life
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ISBN: 9780520218048

ISBN-10: 0520218043

ISBN-13: 9780520218048

Edition: 2003

Authors: Kate Phillips

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Novelist, travel writer, and essayist Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was one of the most successful authors and most passionate intellects of her day. Ralph Waldo Emerson also regarded her as one of America's greatest poets. Today Jackson is best remembered forRamona,a romantic novel set in the rural Southern Californian Indian andCaliforniocommunities of her day.Ramona,continuously in print for over a century, has become a cultural icon, but Jackson's prolific career left us with much more, notably her achievements as a prose writer and her work as an early activist on behalf of Native Americans. This long-overdue biography of Jackson's remarkable life and times reintroduces a…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/3/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 408
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English