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    A Calendar of Sonnets
    A Calendar of Sonnets
    A Calendar of Sonnets
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    A Calendar of Sonnets

    By Helen Hunt Jackson

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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    Helen Hunt Jackson

    Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) was an American poet and activist. Born Helen Maria Fiske in Amherst, Massachusetts, she was raised in a unitarian family alongside a sister, Anne. By seventeen years of age, she had lost both of her parents and was taken in by an uncle. Educated at Ipswich Female Seminar and the Abbott Institute, she was a classmate and friend of Emily Dickinson. At 22, she married Captain Edward Bissell Hunt, with whom she had two sons. Following the deaths of her children and husband, Hunt Jackson dedicated herself to poetry and moved to Newport in 1866. “Coronation” appeared in The Atlantic in 1869, launching Hunt Jackson’s career and helping her find publication in The Century, The Nation, and Independent. Following several years in Europe, she visited California and developed a fascination with the American West. After contracting tuberculosis, she stayed at Seven Falls, a treatment center in Colorado Springs, where she met her second husband William Sharpless Jackson. Praised early on for her elegiac verses by such figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hunt Jackson turned her attention to the plight of Native Americans in 1879 following a lecture in Boston by Ponca chief Standing Bear. She began to lobby government officials by mail and in person, launching and publishing her own investigations of systemic abuse in the New York Independent, Century Magazine, and the Daily Tribune. In 1881, she published A Century of Dishonor, a history of seven tribes who faced oppression, displacement, and genocide under American expansion. She sent her book to every member of Congress and continued to work as an activist and writer until her death from stomach cancer. Ramona (1884), a political novel, was described upon publication in the North American Review as “unquestionably the best novel yet produced by an American woman.”

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      A Calendar of Sonnets - Helen Hunt Jackson

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      Title: A Calendar of Sonnets

      Author: Helen Hunt Jackson

      Posting Date: October 24, 2011 [EBook #9825]

      Release Date: February, 2006

      First Posted: October 21, 2003

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CALENDAR OF SONNETS ***

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      A Calendar of Sonnets

      By

      Helen Jackson

      Boston: Roberts Brothers Publishers

      Somerset Street--1891

      Copyright, 1886,

      By Roberts Brothers.

      University Press:

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      O winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire,

      What loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn

      Dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn

      Of death! Far sooner in midsummer

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