Ramona :
a story /
by Helen Jackson (H.H.)
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Boston : Roberts Brothers, 1884.
- Summary
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A beautiful half Native American, half-Scottish orphan raised by a harsh Mexican ranchera, Ramona enters into a forbidden love affair with a heroic Mission Indian named Alessandro. The pair's adventures after they elope paint a vivid portrait of California history and the woeful fate of Native Americans and Mexicans whose lands and rights were stripped as Anglo-Americans overran southern California.
- Note
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At least two states of this first edition are known: in the later state, signature mark 7 has been removed on p. 97, and an advertisement for A century of dishonor, with the date Aug. 1, 1885, has been substituted for Bits of talk in verse and prose, for young folks, on p. [494].
Multiple impressions of this edition, with [4] p. of advertisements at end, were issued between 1884 and 1886. Beginning in late 1886, the same sheets were reissued with the essay "Ramona's home" ([7] p.), by Edwards Roberts, and [11] p. of advertisements at end.
- Physical Description
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490, [4] p. ;
19 cm.
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