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Bellamy, Edward

reformer, author, was born March 26, 1850, in Chicopee Falls, Mass. He is a socialist reformer whose Utopian theories embodied in the tale Looking Backward, 2000-1887, have been very widely read, and have resulted in the formation of several societies and communities that endeavor to put some of them in practice. His other works include Six to One, a Nantucket Idyl; Dr. Heidenhoff's Process, a Novel; and Miss Ludington's Sister, a Romance of Immortality. He died in 1898.

BELLAMY, MRS. ELIZABETH WHIT- FIELD, author, was born April 17, 1839, in Quincy, Fla. She is a novelist of Mobile, and the author of Four Oaks; Little Joanna; Penny Lancaster Farmer; Old Man Gilbert; and The Luck of the Pendennings.

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