Unattributed portrait of author Helen Hunt Jackson, used as frontispiece in Little, Brown & Co.'s 1909 "Pasadena Edition" of Jackson's 1884
novel, "Ramona," which she loosely based on an earlier visit to the Del Valle family's Rancho Camulos along the road from Saugus to Ventura.
Reading:
"Ramona" (complete text);
The Home of Ramona by Charles Franklin Carter, published 1902;
Rancho Camulos: National Register of Historic Places Nomination, San Buenaventura Research Associates, 1996.