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Los Angeles, California, Navarro cm518 Oriental Rug Review is pleased to offer an article: "Echos in the City of the Angels," by H. H., Helen Jackson (see bio below). This is an original article from Century Magazine, Vol. XXVIII, #2, Dec., 1883, 17 pp. (loose), 10 Engraved Illustrations, 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". .jpg"> About The Author: Helen Maria Fiske was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on October 15, 1830, the daughter of Nathan Fiske and Deborah Waterman Vinal Fiske. Nathan Fiske was professor of Language and Philosophy at Amherst College. Four children were born to Nathan and Deborah, but only the two daughters, Helen and Ann, survived infancy. After Deborah died of consumption in 1844, Helen was cared for by an aunt, Mrs. Martha Hooker. She was educated at Ipswich Female Seminary and at the Abbott Brothers' School in New York City. Nathan Fiske died in 1847 in Jerusalem while on a trip to the Holy Land. In October 1852, Helen married Edward B. Hunt, a captain in the U.S. Corps of Engineers. Their first son, Murray, lived only eleven months before his death in 1854. Edward Hunt was killed in 1863 while experimenting with a submachine gun, his own invention. Two years later, the only remaining son, Warren Horsford Hunt ("Rennie"), died of malignant diphtheria. After the deaths of her husband and sons, Helen Hunt turned to writing, under the tutelage of T. W. Higginson (confidant of Emily Dickenson, see The New Yorker Magazine, Aug. 4. 2008). Her first poem was written three months after Rennie's death. After travelling abroad 1868-1870, Mrs. Hunt returned to the United States and continued her writing--poems, essays, and travel articles. Her first book Verses was published in 1870. Many of her writings appeared in the New York Independent, Nation, Atlantic and other periodicals. Many of her early writings were published unsigned or under a pseudonym. The pseudonyms she used were Marah, Rip Van Winkle, and Saxe-Holm. Later she signed her writings "H. H." and continued to use those initials for the rest of her life. In an attempt to regain her health, Mrs. Hunt visited Colorado in 1873-74. In October, 1875, she married William S. Jackson of Colorado Springs and made Colorado her home. A lecture in Boston in 1879 about the plight of the Ponca Indians excited the interest of Mrs. Jackson. Although she continued her other writing, the American Indian became her primary concern. She wrote A Century of Dishonor in 1881 and sent a copy of it to each member of Congress. Mrs. Jackson and Abbott Kinney were appointed Special Commissioners to investigate the condition of the Mission Indians of California. Their report was published in 1883. The novel Ramona was written in 1884 to try to stimulate greater concern for the Indians in the American public. Mrs. Jackson was injured in a fall in her Colorado Springs home in June, 1884. She went to California to recuperate, but died in San Francisco August 12, 1885. The cause of death was listed as cancer. . Follow This Link to More 19th c. Articles From Century Magazine Like This One Follow This Link to More 19th c. Articles From Century Magazine on California. Go to our Civil War Home Page Gunnery Practice on a Confederate River Picket. Our Oriental Rug Review/Asian Trade eBay StoreClick on the illustration below to Enter our storeFollow this link.
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