Ramona : a story / by Helen Hunt Jackson (H.H.) ; with an introduction by Susan Coolidge ; illustrated by Henry Sandham ; in two volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885.

Contributor:

Sandham, Henry, 1842-1910, illustrator.

Coolidge, Susan, 1835-1905, writer of introduction.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Quaker authors.

American fiction.

Ranch life.

Multiracial people.

Indians, Treatment of.

Indians of North America.

California, Southern--Fiction.

California, Southern.

Southern California.

California.

North America.

Indians of North America--California--Fiction.

Indians, Treatment of--North America--Fiction.

Multiracial people--California--Fiction.

Ranch life--California, Southern--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (bookplate) (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (photogravures, half-tones), portrait ; 21 cm

Edition:

Monterey edition.

Manufacture:

Cambridge [Mass.], U.S.A. : University Press, John Wilson and Son.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1900.

Summary:

Franklin Walker, in his Literary history of Southern California (p. 123-124), states that "The literary document most important in its influence on the growth of the Spanish tradition in Southern California was the immensely popular Ramona ... Appearing in 1884, just before the spectacular boom, it created a nation-wide interest in South California, and it served as a sort of romantic guidebook during the tourist rush." According to Gary F. Kurutz, "Ramona did more to promote Southern California than just about any booster publication. Readers mistook her sad story of injustice as a tender love story and as a recreation of a mythical Arcadian paradise. The story of Ramona and her lover Alessandro became a fairy tale and not a message of reform;" see California calls you: the art of promoting the Golden State, 1870 to 1940 (Sausalito, Calif.: Windgate Press, c2000).

Notes:

Title page in each volume printed in red and black.

The Monterey edition was the first illustrated edition; it includes 25 plates of photogravure illustrations, with guard tissues; and 26 half-tone vignettes at the head of each chapter.

The Monterey edition included a biographical introduction by Susan Coolidge [Sarah C. Woolsey], and notes on the illustrations by the Canadian artist Henry Sandham.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on verso of front free endpaper of each volume.

OCLC:

1100266