Jackson, HELEN FISKE HUNT (1831-1885), an American novelist and poet. She was born at Amherst, Mass., was educated in Ipswich and New York and at twenty-one married Major Edward B. Hunt. Her first poems, written at Newport, R. I., after her husband's death in 1863, and signed "H. H.," were encouragingly received. She remarried in 1875. Later poems, humorous sketches of travel, two novels and various stories for children are included in her works, but she is best known for her impassioned appeal for the indian in A Century of Dishonor, and Ramona. To finish this great story, in which she was to voice the indian's wrongs, she fought heroically against the disease which in the next year caused her death.