{"product_id":"ramona-9781513282671","title":"Ramona","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRamona\u003c\/i\u003e (1884) is a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by her activism for the rights of Native Americans, \u003ci\u003eRamona\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of racial discrimination, survival, and history set in California in the aftermath of the Mexican American War. Immensely popular upon publication, \u003ci\u003eRamona\u003c\/i\u003e earned favorable comparisons to Harriet Beecher Stowe's \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e and remains an influential sentimental novel to this day. Orphaned after the death of her foster mother, Ramona, a Scottish-Native American girl, is taken in by her reluctant foster aunt Se?ora Gonzaga Moreno. Early on, she experiences discrimination due to her mixed heritage and troubled upbringing, but Gonzaga Moreno begrudgingly provides for her as though she were her own daughter, in accordance with her sister's wishes. When a group of Native American migrant workers arrives from Temecula to perform the annual sheep shearing, Ramona falls in love with Alessandro, a pious Catholic. Despite his honesty and capacity for hard work, Alessandro is viewed with contempt by the Se?ora. Faced with no alternative, the lovers elope and make their way toward the San Bernardino Mountains, facing racism and violence from American settlers along the way. Bound by love, rejected by the dominant cultures of the newly Americanized California, Alessandro and Ramona must do what they can to survive. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Helen Hunt Jackson's \u003ci\u003eRamona\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJackson, Helen Hunt:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelen Hunt Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e in 1869, launching Hunt Jackson's career and helping her find publication in \u003ci\u003eThe Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Independent\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCentury Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eDaily Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1881, she published \u003ci\u003eA Century of Dishonor\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eRamona\u003c\/i\u003e (1884), a political novel, was described upon publication in the \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e as \"unquestionably the best novel yet produced by an American woman.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mint Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382340882706,"sku":"9781513282671","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0f25fce4-c698-4e0a-9dc5-74ba0e095023.jpg?v=1744207982","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ramona-9781513282671","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}