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Phillips, Catherine Hale. "Helen (Hunt) Jackson and Her Literary Career," History of American Civilization, Harvard University, May 1997.
A poet, essayist, and fiction writer, Helen Jackson was one of America’s most popular and critically acclaimed writers during the two decades following the Civil War. In this study, I make extensive use of Jackson’s unpublished, private correspondence in order to emphasize three previously neglected aspects of her work. First, I emphasize Jackson’s agency in her own career. Second, I emphasize the lasting influence of Jackson’s Calvinist, literary parents. Finally, I argue that Jackson did her most interesting work as a prose writer of literary regionalism. Jackson’s best regionalist work is her fifth novel, Ramona, which was the first novel in an enduring tradition of dystopian California fiction.
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