She wrote poetry, childrenÕs books, and articles under the pen name of Saxe Holm, but is better known as a novelist. A good friend of Emily Dickinson, she urged her to publish her work, and her novel Mercy PhilbrickÕs Choice is probably based on Dic 
She wrote poetry, childrenÕs books, and articles under the pen name of Saxe Holm, but is better known as a novelist. A good friend of Emily Dickinson, she urged her to publish her work, and her novel Mercy PhilbrickÕs Choice is probably based on Dic  kinsonÕs life. FTP, name this author of Ramona, whose disgust for the governmentÕs treatment of Native Americans prompted her to write A Century of Dishonor.
She wrote poetry, childrenÕs books, and articles under the pen name of Saxe Holm, but is better known as a novelist.
Helen Hunt Jackson