Overview
Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 - May 22, 1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of at least 165 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas and working to make them a practical reality Edward Bellamy was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts. His father was Rufus King Bellamy (1816-1886), a Baptist minister and a descendant of Joseph Bellamy. His mother, Maria Louisa Putnam Bellamy, was herself the daughter of a Baptist minister named Benjamin Putnam, a man forced to withdraw from the ministry in Salem, Massachusetts, following objections to his becoming a Freemason
- | Author: Edward Bellamy|William Dean Howells
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Apr 16, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 162 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1532778147
- | ISBN-13: 9781532778148
