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Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

 

	Finding aid for the Helen Hunt Jackson Papers at Tutt Library, Colorado College Chronology of Jackson's life Childhood Home in Amherst, Mass. Brief Biography at the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame Biographical sketch at socialhistory.org Longer biographical sketch at theglassceiling.com A Walking Tour and brief biography of Jackson Bibliography at Paul Reuben's PAL site. Ramona (1884) (832K file at the American Women Writers site)  Image courtesy of the Legacy site.
Works Available Online (Note: Some of Jackson's works were published under the names or initials H.H., Saxe Holm, or Helen Maria Fiske.) Prose Poetry Bits of Travel (1872) Bits of Talk about Home Matters (1873) The Story of Boon (1874) Saxe Holm's Stories, series 1 (1874) (published under pseud. Saxe Holm) Bits of Talk in Verse and Prose for Young Folks (1876) Mercy Philbrick's Choice (1876) (Note: This book is said to be a fictional portrait of H.H.J.'s Amherst friend Emily Dickinson.) Hetty's Strange History (1877) Bits of Travel at Home (1878) Nellie's Silver Mine (1878) Letters from a Cat: Published by Her Mistress, "H.H." (1879) A Century of Dishonor (1881) Mammy Tittleback and Her Family: A Story of Seventeen Cats (1881) The Training of Children 1882 Report on the Conditions and Needs of the Mission Indians 1883 Ramona (1884) (832K file at the American Women Writers site) Zeph (1885) Glimpses of Three Coasts (1886) The Procession of Flowers in Colorado (1886) Between Whiles (1888; page images at the Making of America Project) My Legacy (1888) Cat Stories (1868) Pansy Billings and Popsy (1898) Father Junipero and the Mission Indians (1902) Glimpses of California: The Missions (1902) "Little Bell's Supplement" Harper's, April 1886 Published under Jackson's pseudonym "Saxe Holm" Holm, Saxe. Draxy Miller's Dowry (Scribner's, July 1872) Draxy Miller's Dowry (Scribner's, May 1872) Draxy Miller's Dowry (Scribner's, June 1872) The Elder's Wife. A Sequel to "Draxy Miller's Dowry" (Scribner's, Apr. 1873) Esther Wynn's Love-Letters (Scribner's, Dec. 1871) Farmer Bassett's Romance (Scribner's, Feb. 1877) Farmer Bassett's Romance (Scribner's, Mar. 1877) Farmer Worrall's Case (Harper's, Dec. 1884) A Four-Leaved Clover (Scribner's, July 1874) A Four-Leaved Clover (Scribner's, June 1874) How One Woman Kept Her Husband (Scribner's, Feb. 1872) Joe Hale's Red Stockings (Scribner's, Jan. 1878) Mrs. Millington and Her Librarian (Harper's, June 1881) My Tourmaline (Scribner's, Dec. 1874) My Tourmaline (Scribner's, Feb. 1875) My Tourmaline (Scribner's, Nov. 1874) My Tourmaline (Scribner's, Jan. 1875) The One-Legged Dancers (Scribner's, Jan. 1873) Susan Lawton's Escape (Scribner's, Mar. 1878) Whose Wife was She? (Scribner's, Sept. 1871) Published under Jackson's pseudonym "Jane Silsbee" Sister Mary's Story (Atlantic, Nov. 1879) Published anonymously "Massy Sprague's Daughter" (Atlantic, July 1879) (attrib. by Kate Phillips, Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life [2003], p. 215.) Verses (1881) (Page images at Michigan MOA) Easter Bells (1884) Sonnets and Lyrics (1886) (Page images at Michigan MOA) (HTML versions at theotherpages.org)   Unto one who lies at rest  A Dream  Danger  Freedom October's Bright Blue Weather To an Absent Lover Crossed Threads The Victory of Patience Refrain  Chance  September The Poet's Forge  Morn Songs of Battle Where?  My Tenants  New Year's Morning The Fir-Tree and the Brook  A Calendar of Sonnets (1891) Verses (1888; page images at MOA) Poems  (1892; HTML at the University of Toronto) "Doubt" "God's Light-houses" "Habeus Corpus" "September" Thanks to Dan Anderson for suggested updates to this page. Comments to D. Campbell.