Review of Helen Hunt Jackson

Authors

Valerie Sherer Mathes, City College of San Francisco

Date of this Version

1988

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 1988. Copyright 1988 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Abstract

Helen Hunt Jackson, considered by Emerson "the greatest American woman poet," was author of more that thirty books and numerous newspaper pieces and articles. Virtually forgotten today, she is ironically the subject of two short biographies written last year, although neither eclipses the one written in 1939 by Ruth Odell.