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Helen Hunt Jackson

1830 - 1885

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Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name: H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist for improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her popular 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 successful, it was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times, with readers liking its romantic and picturesque qualities more than its political content. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Helen Hunt Jackson is the 5,888th most popular writer (up from 6,291st in 2024), the 9,880th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,184th in 2019) and the 721st most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Helen Hunt Jackson ranks 5,888 out of 7,302. Before her are Frederick Rolfe, Dragutin Tadijanović, Steve Sem-Sandberg, Richard Hoggart, Algis Budrys, and Yakov Polonsky. After her are Julie Garwood, Alfredo Bryce, Roshanara Begum, Ingrid Jonker, Nikolai Aseev, and Gianni Celati.

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Among people born in 1830, Helen Hunt Jackson ranks 73. Before her are Clements Markham, Karolina Světlá, Jaroslav Čermák, Emily Davies, Frederic Moore, and Lina Morgenstern. After her are Manuel Ezequiel Bruzual, Harriet Hosmer, Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen, Belva Ann Lockwood, Abraham Jacobi, and Ezra Meeker. Among people deceased in 1885, Helen Hunt Jackson ranks 80. Before her are William Henry Vanderbilt, Gaudenzio Marconi, Andrea Maffei, Juan Bautista Topete, Bernhard Horwitz, and Anthony W. Gardiner. After her are Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Titian Peale, John McCloskey, and Robert Toombs.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen Hunt Jackson ranks 9,883 out of 20,380. Before her are Lam Jones (1958), Christy Mathewson (1880), Joey Castillo (1966), Wes Borland (1975), Nancy Travis (1961), David Ray Griffin (1939), and Hugo Black (1886). After her are Richard LeParmentier (1946), Charles Vinci (1933), Isaac Kashdan (1905), Method Man (1971), and Robert S. Woodworth (1869).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Helen Hunt Jackson ranks 721. Before her are Ann Rule (1931), Leo Buscaglia (1924), Kenneth Rexroth (1905), Barbara Kingsolver (1955), John Keel (1930), and Daniel Goldhagen (1959). After her are Julie Garwood (1946), Winston Churchill (1871), Susan Glaspell (1876), Rebecca Solnit (1961), Whittaker Chambers (1901), and David S. Goyer (1965).

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