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She's an avid surfer, who recently wrote and directed a movie which centred around the sport.

And Helen Hunt showcased her washboard body as she surfed up a storm during a getaway to Maui, Hawaii on Thursday.

The 52-year-old actress defied the years in a brown bikini top and ripped denim shorts as she dried off by her car.

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Beach babe: Helen Hunt showcased her washboard body as she surfed up a storm during a getaway to Maui, Hawaii on Thursday

The What Women Want star made no attempt to hide her enviably toned stomach and slender legs as she stood by her car in the skimpy ensemble.

Just moments before, the actress donned a long-sleeve navy rash vest and turquoise wetsuit leggings emblazoned with bright yellow flowers.

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The actress proved age is nothing but a number as she faultlessly rode the crystal blue waves whilst standing on an orange surfboard.

Her face completely make-up free and her long blonde locks worn in a slicked-back style, Helen looked the ultimate surf babe as she rippled across the ocean.



Surf's up: The actress proved age is nothing but a number as she faultlessly rode the crystal blue waves whilst standing on an orange surfboard

Her outing comes just a week after the DVD release of her directorial debut with new movie, Ride.

Also starring in the movie, the actress plays a New York City magazine editor who takes off after her free-spirited son (Brenton Thwaites) ditches NYU to become a surfer in California.

Luke Wilson, 41, plays the saucy actress' surf instructor love interest, 'who brings her to life in every way.'

The flick proved to be a family affair for Helen as Matthew Carnahan, her partner of 12 years, served as executive producer.

The long-time couple are parents to eleven-year-old daughter Makena, which is Hawaiian for 'abundance'.



Go girl! Her face completely make-up free and her long blonde locks worn in a slicked-back style, Helen looked the ultimate surf babe as she rippled across the ocean



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Lean legs: The As Good As It Gets star was pictured showing off her trim figure in Malibu back in February

Helen Hunt Jackson. Albumen silver print, c. 1884, by Charles F. Conly.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

Jackson, Helen Hunt (14 Oct. 1830-12 Aug. 1885), writer and reformer, was born Helen Maria Fiske in Amherst, Massachusetts, the daughter of Nathan Welby Fiske, a professor of languages at Amherst College, and Deborah Vinal. Her mother, recognizing Helen's inclination toward independent thought and behavior, described her as "quite inclined to question everything; the Bible she says does not feel as if it were true" (Banning, p. 11). Despite a sporadic education at a series of boarding schools, she was better educated than most women of her time, having exposure to mathematics, science, and philosophy as well as the usual "finishing school" subjects.

In 1852 Helen Fiske married Edward Bissell Hunt, a mechanical engineer in the U.S. Army. His frequent changes of station gave her the opportunity to live at the artists' colony of Newport, Rhode Island, and in Washington, D.C., where she met a number of the leading writers and publishers of her day. The Hunts had two sons; one died in infancy and the other in childhood. In 1863 Major Hunt was killed in a military accident, and Helen Hunt turned to writing as a form of solace as well as a possible source of income.

Using her literary contacts, Helen Hunt began her career in 1865 with two poems published in the New York Evening Post. Her first poetry collection, Verses, appeared in 1870, followed by a prose collection, Bits of Travel, in 1873. Under the tutelage of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, whom she had met at Newport, Hunt emulated other female writers who had successfully met the requirements of publishers catering to female readers. Carefully adhering to the woman's sphere of domesticity, she stressed in lyrics, essays, and travel sketches the moral and emotional qualities a woman was expected to possess in her role as exemplar to husband and children. She was able to bring a sprightly air to plodding subjects and to subdue fashionable melodramatic excesses without losing dramatic effect. Her rapid success can also be attributed to her astute cultivation of literary contacts as well as the size of the female readers' market. Her popularity established, she added short stories, children's stories, and novels, published under several pseudonyms but most often simply "H.H."

Through her acquaintance with Higginson, Hunt came into contact with her childhood friend Emily Dickinson. They began a correspondence that lasted until Hunt's death. In her characteristic way, Dickinson occasionally enclosed a poem. Though sometimes admitting that the lines puzzled her, Hunt was aware she was in touch with talent that far surpassed her own. Consistently she pleaded that Dickinson allow her to help with publication. She chided Dickinson for not giving her "day & generation" the privilege of reading her poems. Like no other of Dickinson's known correspondents, Hunt unhesitatingly expressed her conviction that her friend was a great poet.

Hunt's early travel sketches were about her excursions into quaint New England and European byways; then in 1872 a trip by transcontinental railroad from New York City to San Francisco gave her material for essays collected in Bits of Travel at Home (1878). When in 1873, after a period of ill health, Hunt returned to the West to try its restorative powers, she went to the new town of Colorado Springs, where in 1875 she married William Sharpless Jackson, a banker and railroad executive. For the rest of her life she called Colorado Springs home but made many trips back east to maintain contact with publishers and other authors, and regular journeys to California, which attracted her for its history as well as its beauty.

In 1879, while visiting in Boston, she attended a reception for representatives of the Ponca and Omaha Indian tribes who were touring the East in an attempt to arouse public indignation over the confiscation of their tribal lands by the U.S. government. Jackson had never shown any interest in reform movements, nor had her experiences in the West sparked any concern for Indian rights, but suddenly she was transformed. She wrote a friend that she had become what she had previously considered "the most odious thing in the world, 'a woman with a hobby' " (Banning, p. 149). Her dedication to the cause of justice for Indian tribes resulted in a well-researched exposé of Indian mistreatment published in 1881 as A Century of Dishonor; the government-commissioned Report on the Conditions and Needs of the Mission Indians, with Abbot Kinney (1883); Ramona (1884), one of the most popular novels of its day; and a series of essays on the California Mission Indians, collected in Glimpses of California and the Missions (1902).

When her nonfiction writings did not initiate the reforms that Jackson sought, she said of Ramona, "I am going to write a novel, in which will be set forth some Indian experiences in a way to move people's hearts. . . . People will read a novel when they will not read serious books" (Banning, p. 200). Critics and readers responded positively, but Jackson was dismayed by the focus of the reviews: "Not one word for the Indians; I put my heart and soul in the book for them. It is a dead failure" (Banning, p. 216). Instead of recognizing Jackson's intent, readers were captivated by the charm of the southern California setting and the romance between a half-breed girl raised by an aristocratic Spanish family and an Indian forced off his tribal lands by white encroachers.

In little more than a year following the publication of Ramona, Jackson died of cancer in San Francisco. She was eulogized in newspapers from coast to coast. Publishers rushed to produce reprints and new collections. Ramona became the impetus for the romanticization of southern California history. For a time a body of literature about "Ramona Country" flourished, and various sites from the book became tourist attractions. It has gone through over 300 printings and transformation into stage plays, movies, and pageants.

Of all her work, Jackson believed only Ramona and A Century of Dishonor would survive. She was close to being right; however, her travel sketches and essays, especially those about the West, also deserve a continuing readership. One of the few cultivated women to travel to the West and write about the journey, and then to marry and establish a home there, her responses to these experiences are unique among nineteenth-century travelogues. Although she was disappointed that her dedication to the cause of justice for the American Indians did not have more immediate results, her writings inspired other reformers to continue their efforts. A Century of Dishonor and Report on the Conditions and Needs of the Mission Indians were frequently used as resources in the speeches and writings of such organizations as the Indian Rights Association and the Women's National Indian Association. Especially in her exposure of the treatment of the Mission Indians of California, Jackson influenced reform legislation.

Helen Hunt Jackson, in full Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, née Fiske   (born Oct. 15, 1830, Amherst, Mass., U.S.—died Aug. 12, 1885, San Francisco, Calif.), American poet and novelist best known for her novel Ramona.

She was the daughter of Nathan Fiske, a professor at Amherst (Mass.) College. She lived the life of a young army wife, traveling from post to post, and after the deaths of her first husband, Captain Edward Hunt, and her two sons, in 1863 she turned to writing. She married William Jackson in 1875 and moved to Colorado. A prolific writer, she is remembered primarily for her efforts on behalf of the American Indians. A Century of Dishonor (1881) arraigned government Indian policy; her subsequent appointment to a federal commission investigating the plight of Indians on missions provided material for Ramona (1884), which aroused public sentiment but has been admired chiefly for its romantic picture of old California.

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske, was a United States writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She detailed the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her novel Ramona dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California and attracted considerable attention to her cause,although its popularity was based on its romantic and picturesque qualities rather than its political content. It was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times, and contributed to the growth of tourism in Southern California.

The novel was adapted repeatedly for movies: in 1910 it was produced as a silent film Ramona, directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Mary Pickford. Other versions were made in 1928 and 1936.

Early Years

She was born Helen Fiske in Amherst, Massachusetts, the daughter of Nathan Welby Fiske and Deborah Waterman Vinal. She had two brothers, both of whom died after birth, and a sister Anne. Her father was a minister, author, and professor of Latin, Greek, and philosophy at Amherst College.

Her mother died in 1844 when Helen was fourteen, and her father three years later. Her father provided for her education and arranged for an aunt to care for her. Fiske attended Ipswich Female Seminary and the Abbott Institute, a boarding school run by Reverend J.S.C. Abbott in New York City. She was a classmate of the poet Emily Dickinson, also from Amherst. The two corresponded for the rest of their lives, but few of their letters have survived.

Marriage and Family

In 1852 at age 22, Fiske married U.S. Army Captain Edward Bissell Hunt. They had two sons, one of whom, Murray Hunt, died as an infant in 1854 of a brain disease. In 1863, her husband died in a military accident. Her second son, Rennie Hunt, died of diphtheria in 1865.

About 1873-1874, Hunt met William Sharpless Jackson, a wealthy banker and railroad executive, while visiting at Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the resort of Seven Falls. They married in 1875 and she took the name Jackson, under which she was best known for her writings. She was a Unitarian.

Career

Helen Hunt began writing after the deaths of her family members. She published her early work anonymously, usually under the name "H.H."Emerson admired her poetry and used several of her poems in his public readings. He included five of them in his anthology Parnassus.

She traveled widely. In the winter of 1873-1874 she was in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in search of a cure for tuberculosis. Here she met the man who would become her second husband. Over the next two years, she published three novels in the anonymous No Name Series, including Mercy Philbrick's Choice and Hetty's Strange History.

In 1879 her interests turned to Native Americans after hearing a lecture in Boston by the Ponca Chief Standing Bear. He described the forcible removal of the Ponca from their Nebraska reservation and transfer to the Quapaw Reservation in Indian Territory, where they suffered from disease, climate and poor supplies. Upset about the mistreatment of Native Americans by government agents, Jackson became an activist. She started investigating and publicizing government misconduct, circulating petitions, raising money, and writing letters to the New York Times on behalf of the Ponca.

A fiery and prolific writer, Jackson engaged in heated exchanges with federal officials over the injustices committed against American Indians. Among her special targets was U.S. Secretary of Interior Carl Schurz, whom she once called "the most adroit liar I ever knew." She exposed the government's violation of treaties with the American Indian tribes. She documented the corruption of US Indian agents, military officers, and settlers who encroached on and stole Indian lands.

Jackson won the support of several newspaper editors who published her reports. Among her correspondents were editor William Hayes Ward of the New York Independent, Richard Watson Guilder of the Century Magazine, and publisher Whitelaw Reid of the New York Daily Tribune.

Jackson also wrote a book, the first published under her own name, condemning state and federal Indian policy, and detailing the history of broken treaties. A Century of Dishonor (1881) called for significant reform in government policy toward Native Americans. Jackson sent a copy to every member of Congress with a quote from Benjamin Franklin printed in red on the cover: "Look upon your hands: they are stained with the blood of your relations." The New York Times later wrote that she "soon made enemies at Washington by her often unmeasured attacks, and while on general lines she did some good, her case was weakened by her inability, in some cases, to substantiate the charges she had made; hence many who were at first sympathetic fell away."

Jackson went to southern California for respite. Having been interested in the area's missions and the Mission Indians on an earlier visit, she began an in-depth study. While in Los Angeles, she met Don Antonio Coronel, former mayor of the city and a well-known authority on early Californio life in the area. He had served as inspector of missions for the Mexican government. Coronel told her about the plight of the Mission Indians after 1833. They were buffeted by the secularization policies of the Mexican government, as well as later U.S. policies, both of which led to their removal from mission lands. Under its original land grants, the Mexican government provided for resident Indians to continue to occupy such lands. After taking control of the territory in 1848, the U.S. generally disregarded such Mission Indian occupancy claims. In 1852, there were an estimated 15,000 Mission Indians in Southern California. By the time of Jackson's visit, they numbered fewer than 4,000.

Coronel's account inspired Jackson to action. The U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Hiram Price, recommended her appointment as an Interior Department agent. Jackson's assignment was to visit the Mission Indians, ascertain the location and condition of various bands, and determine what lands, if any, should be purchased for their use. With the help of the US Indian agent Abbot Kinney, Jackson traveled throughout Southern California and documented conditions. At one point, she hired a law firm to protect the rights of a family of Saboba Indians facing dispossession from their land at the foot of the San Jacinto Mountains.

In 1883, Jackson completed her 56-page report. It recommended extensive government relief for the Mission Indians, including the purchase of new lands for reservations and the establishment of more Indian schools. A bill embodying her recommendations passed the U.S. Senate but died in the House of Representatives.

Jackson decided to write a novel to reach a wider audience. When she wrote Coronel asking for details about early California and any romantic incidents he could remember, she explained her purpose:

"I am going to write a novel, in which will be set forth some Indian experiences in a way to move people's hearts. People will read a novel when they will not read serious books." She was inspired by her friend Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). "If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life," she wrote.

Although Jackson started an outline in California, she began writing the novel in December 1883 in her New York hotel room, and completed it in about three months. Originally titled In The Name of the Law, she published it as Ramona (1884). It featured Ramona, an orphan girl who was half Indian and half Scots, raised in Spanish Californio society, and her Indian husband Alessandro, and their struggles for land of their own. The characters were based on people known by Jackson and incidents which she had encountered. The book achieved rapid success among a wide public and was popular for generations; it was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times. Its romantic story also contributed to the growth of tourism to Southern California.

One year after her death the North American Review called Ramona "unquestionably the best novel yet produced by an American woman" and named it, along with Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of two most ethical novels of the 19th century. Sixty years after its publication, 600,000 copies had been sold. There have been over 300 reissues to date and the book has never been out of print.
Encouraged by the popularity of her book, Jackson planned to write a children's story about Indian issues, but did not live to complete it. Her last letter was written to President Grover Cleveland and said:

"From my death bed I send you message of heartfelt thanks for what you have already done for the Indians. I ask you to read my Century of Dishonor. I am dying happier for the belief I have that it is your hand that is destined to strike the first steady blow toward lifting this burden of infamy from our country and righting the wrongs of the Indian race."
Jackson wrote, "My Century of Dishonor and Ramona are the only things I have done of which I am glad....They will live, and...bear fruit."
Jackson died of stomach cancer in 1885 in San Francisco, California. Her husband arranged for her burial on a one-acre plot on a high plateau overlooking Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her grave was later moved to Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs. Her estate was valued at $12,642,

She used her married names, Helen Hunt and Helen Jackson, but scholars now refer to her as Helen Hunt Jackson. The New York Times referred to her as Helen Hunt Jackson in 1885, reporting on her final illness, and in 1886, reporting on visitors to her grave.
Valery Sherer Mathes assessed the writer and her work:

Ramona may not have been another Uncle Tom's Cabin, but it served, along with Jackson's writings on the Mission Indians of California, as a catalyst for other reformers ....Helen Hunt Jackson cared deeply for the Indians of California. She cared enough to undermine her health while devoting the last few years of her life to bettering their lives. Her enduring writings, therefore, provided a legacy to other reformers, who cherished her work enough to carry on her struggle and at least try to improve the lives of America's first inhabitants.

Her friend Emily Dickinson once described her limitations: "she has the facts but not the phosphorescence."

Her novel was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 1910. It was directed by D. W. Griffith and starred Mary Pickford. In a review of the film, a journalist wrote about the novel, calling it "the long and lugubrious romance by Helen Hunt Jackson, over which America wept unnumbered gallons in the eighties and nineties," and complained of "the long, uneventful stretches of the novel." In reviewing the history of her publisher, Houghton Mifflin, a 1970 reviewer noted that Jackson typified the house's success: "Middle aged, middle class, middlebrow."The novel was adapted for films by the same name in 1928 and 1936 as well, and starred leading actresses.

Legacy

Jackson's A Century of Dishonor remains in print, as does a collection of her poetry.

A New York Times reviewer said of Ramona that "by one estimate, the book has been reprinted 300 times." The novel has been adapted for other media, including three films, stage, and television productions.

A portion of Jackson's Colorado home has been reconstructed in the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum and furnished with her possessions.

Memorials

The Helen Hunt Jackson Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library is a Mission/Spanish Revival style-building built in 1925. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The largest collection of the papers of Helen Hunt Jackson is held at Colorado College.
A high school in Hemet, California, and an elementary school in Temecula were named after her.
Helen Hunt Falls, located in North Cheyenne Canyon in Colorado Springs, was named in her memory.
Helen Hunt Elementary located in Colorado Springs, Colorado was also named after her.

Helen Hunt Jackson's Works:

Bits about Home Matters (1873)
Saxe Holm's Stories (1874)
Mercy Philbrick's Choice (1876)
Hetty's Strange History(1877)
Bits of Talk in Verse and Prose for Young Folks (1876)
Bits of Travel at Home (1878)
Nelly's Silver Mine: A Story of Colorado Life (1878)
Letters from a Cat (1879)
A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with some of the Indian Tribes (1882)
Ramona (1884)
Zeph: A Posthumous Story (1885)
Glimpses of Three Coasts (1886)
Between Whiles (1888)
A Calendar of Sonnets (1891)
Ryan Thomas (1892)
The Hunter Cats of Connorloa (1894)

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Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to academic Calvinist parents, poet, author, and Native American rights activist Helen Hunt Jackson (born Helen Maria Fiske) was orphaned as a child and raised by her aunt. Jackson was sent to private schools and formed a lasting childhood friendship with Emily Dickinson. At the age of 21, Jackson married Lieutenant Edward Bissell Hunt and together they had two sons. Jackson began writing poetry only after the early deaths of her husband and both sons.

Jackson published five collections of poetry, including Verses (1870) and Easter Bells(1884), as well as children’s literature and travel books, often using the pseudonyms “H.H.,” “Rip van Winkle,” or “Saxe Holm.” Frequently in poor health, she moved to Colorado on her physician’s recommendation and married William Sharpless Jackson there in 1875.

Moved by an 1879 speech given by Chief Standing Bear, Jackson wrote A Century of Dishonor (1881), an exposé of the rampant crimes against Native Americans, which led to the founding of the Indian Rights Association. In 1884 she published Ramona, a fictionalized account of the plight of Southern California’s dispossessed Mission Indians, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Jackson was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 1985.