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American author and socialist (1850–1898)

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It is catalogued under topics including 1850 births, 1898 deaths and 19th-century American male writers.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1850
Died
1898
Works
173

Top works

  • Looking backward
  • Miss Ludlington's sister
  • Looking backward, 2000-1898
  • エドワード・ベラミー
  • Looking backward, 2000-1887

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Type
Group
Origin
United States
Active from
1975
countrycountry popcountry rocksoft rock

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Total plays
125

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Quotes

  • Forgiving sins, I should have known, is not blotting them out. The blood of Christ only turns them red instead of black. It leaves them in the record. It leaves them in the memory.
  • A sense of utter loneliness—loneliness inevitable, crushing, eternal, the loneliness of existence, encompassed by the infinite void of unconsciousness—enfolded him as a pall. Life lay like an incubus on his bosom. He shuddered at the thought that death might overlook him, and deny him its refuge.
  • The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own organizations, read women as easily and accurately as women read each other. They are alert to detect and interpret those smallest trifles in tone, expression, and bearing, which betray the real mood far more unmistakably than more obvious signs.
  • And, in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?...In your day governments were accustomed, on the slightest international misunderstanding, to seize upon the bodies of citizens and deliver them over by hundreds of thousands to death and mutilation, wasting their treasures the while like water; and all this oftenest for no imaginable profit to the victims.
  • But one thing it opened her eyes to, and made certain from the first instant of her new consciousness, namely, that since she loved him she could not keep her promise to marry him.
  • Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.

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Key facts

Born
( 1850-03-26 ) March 26, 1850, Chicopee, Massachusetts , US
Died
May 22, 1898 (1898-05-22) (aged 48), Chicopee, Massachusetts , US
Occupation
Author
Notable works
Dr. Heidenhoff's Process (1880), Looking Backward, 2000–1887 (1888), To Whom This May Come (1889), Equality (1897)
Relatives
Francis Bellamy (cousin)

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date of birth
1850-01-01
date of death
1898-01-01
Commons category
Edward Bellamy
start of work period
1878-00-00
Commons Creator page
Edward Bellamy
name in native language
Edward Bellamy
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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Edward Bellamy, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Edward Bellamy (/ˈbɛləmi/; March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerous "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of state ownership of the main pillars of the economy, achieved through nationalization.

After working as a journalist and writing several novels, Bellamy published Looking Backward in 1888. It was the third best-selling novel of the 19th century in the United States, and it especially appealed to a generation of intellectuals alienated by the perceived dark side of the Gilded Age. In the early 1890s, Bellamy established a newspaper known as The New Nation and began to promote united action between the various Nationalist Clubs and the emerging Populist Party. He published Equality, a sequel to Looking Backward, in 1897, and died the following year.

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