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Elizabeth Bellamy was born on April 17, 1837, near Quincy, Florida, the daughter of William Whitfield and Julia Stephens Croom.
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Elizabeth Bellamy was born on April 17, 1837, near Quincy, Florida, the daughter of William Whitfield and Julia Stephens Croom.
Elizabeth was educated in Springer Institute, New York City. Her education in Philadelphia and New York gave her a life-long interest in music and literature.
Bellamy’s husband died in 1863 while acting as a surgeon in the Confederate Army. Mrs. Bellamy, left destitute, began teaching in Mobile, Alabama, and continued there, so occupied all her life. In 1870, calling herself "Kamba Thorpe, " but permitting herself before long to be referred to in advertisements as "a Southern lady, " she published a novel, Four Oaks. This was followed in 1876 by The Little Joanna. Both of these are romantic stories of the South, vaguely localized. The realistic impulse so far mastered her in 1888 that her Old Man Gilbert, published in that year, disclosed not only the real name of its author but the definite scene and time of its action, Tallahassee, Florida, 1857. The central character, Gilbert, is a typically humorous negro, domineering but indulgent and unexpectedly capable.
Penny Lancaster (1889), the story of a Georgia farm, turns still faithfully upon affairs of the heart, but is freighted with different implication - it tells, in fact, how a woman without sacrificing any of her charm and virtue - and the consequence of those qualities, a satisfactory husband - may none the less at need be a thorough-going person of affairs, turning events to her own will. The writing of these four novels and stories which appeared in the better magazines of the country, together with her teaching, did not suffice to fill Mrs. Bellamy's time during the many years which she spent at the home of her brother. She was an enthusiastic student of Shakespeare, about whom she regularly gave courses of private lectures. The newspapers at the time of her death referred to her as a "typical Southern woman, " who would leave a very gracious memory.
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Elizabeth was married in 1858 to her cousin, Charles E. Bellamy, who was a native of North Carolina. They had two children, neither of whom survived infancy. Dr. Bellamy died in 1863 while acting as a surgeon in the Confederate Army.