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Jackson, Helen Hunt (1830-1885) Two Author's Presentation Copies.
Including: Jackson's Verses, Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874, new and enlarged edition, 12mo, in publisher's green cloth, presented by the author to Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge (1831-1905) with "MED from H.H." on ffep, and a cabinet card of Hunt Jackson dated 1875 and initialed H.H. inserted (four diagonal cuts in the front endleaf with the card inserted as in a photo album) the card with a large vertical bend and cracked surface, 5 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. [and] A Century of Dishonor, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881, first edition, octavo, inscribed on ffep, "With the compliments of the author," bound in publisher's cloth, lettered in gilt, one corner bumped, otherwise very good, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (2)
"Over the years Jackson took a growing interest in writing domestic essays designed for children themselves, just as she would also devote increasing attention to children's poetry, travel literature, and fiction. She published her children's work mostly in the juvenile section of the Independent, [...] and in several children's journals; these included the influential St. Nicholas, which was edited beginning in 1873 by a good friend of Jackson's from her Newport years, the New York writer and editor Mary Mapes Dodge ('Lizzie')."
"Mary Mapes Dodge [...] so impressed Jackson with her children's writing and competent editorship of St. Nicholas that Jackson once declared her 'the cleverest woman alive in America today.'" (Both quoted from Kate Phillips's Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life, University of California Press, 2003.)
