Helen Hunt Jackson

In this book, Helen Hunt Jackson is an excellent and fascinating biography of an independent 19th century lady whose claims to literary fame rests on her remarkable circle of friends and a single romantic novel that aroused the public sympathy towards the plight of the American Indian.Helen Hunt Jackson was the author of "Ramona",a tragic novel of social injustice.After more than a century(and more than 350 successive printings)Ramona is still in print and has been compared to "Uncle Toms Cabin" that is one of the best selling books in publishing history.The saga of Ms. Jackson's life has all the scope and diversity of good romantic fiction and is peopled with an incredible cast of characters including her life long friend,Emily Dickinson;her literary advisor,Ralph Waldo Emerson and her California mountain guide,John Muir.This is a great book!!