Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830–1885) was an American writer, born at Amherst, Massachusetts, and a childhood friend of Emily Dickinson. She wrote poems, essays, and stories, signing some of them “H.H.”, and settled in Colorado Springs after her second marriage.

She is best known for A Century of Dishonor (1881), a protest against the treatment of Native Americans, and for the novel Ramona (1884).