Elizabeth (or Emily) Whitfield Croom Bellamy (pen name, Kamba Thorpe; 1837–1900) was an American novelist and essayist.

Elizabeth Croom Bellamy
Kamba Thorpe
Born	(1839-04-17)April 17, 1839 Quincy, Florida
Occupation	Novelist

Biography

Elizabeth (or Emily) Whitfield Croom Bellamy was born in Quincy, Florida, 17 April 1839. She was educated in Springer Institute, New York City. She taught in a female seminary in Eutaw, Alabama, for several years. Bellamy wrote under the pen-name "Kamba Thorpe"[1] (sometimes misspelled, "Kampa Thorpe") Four Oaks (New York, 1867), and Little Joanna (New York, 1876).[2] Additional works included Old Man Gilbert (1888) and The Luck of the Pendennings (1895, Ladies Home Journal).[3] She contributed essays to the Mobile Sunday Times.[4]

Bellamy died in 1900. Her biography, Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy: The Life and Works of a Southern Bell (University of Texas at Austin, 1996) was published by Dorothy McLeod MacInerney.[5]

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Attribution

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Tardy, Mary T. (1872). The Living Female Writers of the South (Public domain ed.). Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. p. 251.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Warner, Charles Dudley; Mabie, Hamilton Wright; Warner, Charles Henry (1897). A Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: Dictionary of authors (Public domain ed.). International Society.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 73.

Bibliography

• Carty, T.J. (3 December 2015). A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-135-95585-4.

External links

• Works related to Woman of the Century/Emily Whitfield Croom Bellamy at Wikisource
• Works by Elizabeth W. Bellamy at Project Gutenberg

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