Jackson has a wide body of work from poems, to short stories, to essays and her travel articles. A Century of Dishonor was her only full length nonfiction work. Besides, Ramona some other novels she wrote were, Hetty's Strange History and Mercy Philbrick's Choice. Ramona has withstood the test of time, unlike her other works of fiction.
Her extensive travels inspired much of her later writing. She wrote some of the following travel essays:
"A Glimpse of the Queen of England"
"An Afternoon in the Ghetto of Rome"
"The Foundling Hospital of London"
"Down the Arkansas River to New York"
"By Horse Cars into Mexico"
"In and Out of Boston"
"Breakfast in San Juan Capistrano"
They give an indication of the variety of places and topics that she included in her writings. The photo above is of San Juan Capistrano Mission circa 1899 (taken by Henry Jackson and digitally restored). It would have looked similar to this when she visited there and wrote "Breakfast in San Juan Capistrano".
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