"The voice of one who goes before to make The paths of June more beautiful, is thine Sweet May!"
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Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Maria (Fiske) Hunt Jackson (October 18, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American writer best known as the author of Ramona, a novel about the ill treatment of Native Americans in southern California.
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