Helen Hunt Jackson, born Helen Maria Fiske on 15 October 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and dead on 12 August 1885 in San Francisco, California, lived a life shaped by literary ambition, devastating bereavement, restless travel, and an increasingly fierce commitment to justice for Native peoples. She achieved wide fame in her own century as a poet, essayist, travel writer, novelist, and public intellectual. Today sh…
“The Indian has been made to feel that he is an alien in the land which was once all his own.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Spirituality, Wonder
Helen Hamilton, born on 12 March 1882 and dead on 7 November 1954, occupies an unusual place in the literary history of the First World War. Her name survives most securely through a small number of fiercely memorable poems, above all “The Jingo-Woman,” a work whose bitter dramatic irony has made it one of the most frequently recovered anti-war poems written from a woman’s perspective. Yet the biographical record sur…
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Modernist Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Despair, Sorrow, Irony
