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A Woman of the Century:   A Crowdsourcing Project of the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries

Helen Hunt Jackson

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Helen Maria Fiske Jackson (1830-1885)better known as Helen Hunt Jackson or "H. H."

  • During the 1870s, Jackson began publishing juvenile fiction with Roberts Brothers.

  • Mercy Philbrick’s Choice, a fictional work published by Roberts Brothers in 1876, was noticed in  numerous periodicals.  She continued to publish with Roberts Brothers as more and more readers knew of “H.H.” 

  • She capitalized on her known name to support the Native American cause. However, for her A Century of Dishonor (1881), she chose Harper Brothers.

  • When "H. H." published Ramona, her fictional work about Native Americans in 1884, she published it through Roberts Brothers.  At least eleven periodicals reviewed this popular work.