Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy
Elizabeth (or Emily) Whitfield Croom Bellamy (pen name, Kamba Thorpe; 1837–1900) was an American novelist and essayist.
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| Born | April 17, 1839 |
| Occupation | Novelist |
Biography
Elizabeth (or Emily) Whitfield Croom Bellamy was born in Quincy, Florida, 17 April 1839. She was educated in Springer Institute, New York City. She taught in a female seminary in Eutaw, Alabama, for several years. Bellamy wrote under the pen-name "Kamba Thorpe"[1] (sometimes misspelled, "Kampa Thorpe") Four Oaks (New York, 1867), and Little Joanna (New York, 1876).[2] Additional works included Old Man Gilbert (1888) and The Luck of the Pendennings (1895, Ladies Home Journal).[3] She contributed essays to the Mobile Sunday Times.[4]
Bellamy died in 1900. Her biography, Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy: The Life and Works of a Southern Bell (University of Texas at Austin, 1996) was published by Dorothy McLeod MacInerney.[5]
References
Citations
- Carty 2015, p. 939.
- Willard 1893, pp. 73–74.
- Warner, Mabie & Warner 1897, p. 52.
- Tardy 1872, p. 251.
- MacInerney, Dorothy McLeod (1996). Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy: The Life and Works of a Southern Bell [sic]. University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
Attribution
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Tardy, Mary T. (1872). The Living Female Writers of the South (Public domain ed.). Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. p. 251.- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Warner, Charles Dudley; Mabie, Hamilton Wright; Warner, Charles Henry (1897). A Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: Dictionary of authors (Public domain ed.). International Society.
- This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 73.
Bibliography
- Carty, T.J. (3 December 2015). A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-135-95585-4.
External links
Works related to Woman of the Century/Emily Whitfield Croom Bellamy at Wikisource- Works by Elizabeth W. Bellamy at Project Gutenberg