Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winklelike tale set in the distant future of the year 2000. Bellamys vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of at least 165 Nationalist Clubs dedicated to the propagation of Bellamys political ideas and working to make them a practical reality.

Edward Bellamy was born in Chicopee, Massachusetts. His father was Rufus King Bellamy , 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.

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