| | 1 | Author: | Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Helen Jackson  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE news of the death of Mrs. Helen Jackson — better known as
"H. H." — will probably carry a pang of regret into more American
homes than similar intelligence in regard to any other woman, with
the possible exception of Mrs. H. B. Stowe, who belongs to an
earlier literary generation. With this last-named exception, no
American woman has produced literary work of such marked
ability. Her fame was limited by the comparatively late period at
which she began to write, and by her preference for a somewhat
veiled and disguised way of writing. It is hard for two initial letters
to cross the Atlantic, and she had therefore no European fame; and
as she took apparently a real satisfaction in concealing her identity
and mystifying her public, it is very likely that the authorship of
some of her best prose work will never be absolutely known.
Enough remained, however, to give her a peculiar both hold upon
thoughtful and casual readers. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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