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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Helen Hunt Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Helen Hunt Jackson’s novel, Ramona (1884), sold more than 15,000 copies before her death ten months after it was published, and has been reprinted more than three hundred times since then. |
 | | Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson was born on 14 October 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, the first child of Nathan Welby Fiske, a minister and professor of Latin and Greek at Amherst College, and Deborah Vinal Fiske of Boston. |
 | | She adapted with apparent ease to the transitory life of the military, perhaps because she had become accustomed to moving from place to place since childhood, and for the rest of her life she was something of a restless traveler, never residing in a single place for very long at a time. |
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