Helen Jackson

Set in Southern California shortly after the Mexican-American War, Helen Hunt Jackson's «Ramona» is the fictional story of its title character, a part Scottish and part Indian orphan girl who endures great discrimination while growing up in the late 1800s. Immensely popular when first published in 1884, «Ramona» is a timeless story of the discrimination that people of different cultures have endured throughout history exemplified by the conflict of cultures between Mexican, American, and...