Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy

Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy (pen name, Kamba Thorpe; 1837-1900) was an American novelist and essayist, 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" (sometimes misspelled, "Kampa Thorpe") Four Oaks (New York, 1867), and Little Joanna (New York, 1876).^[1] Additional works included Old Man Gilbert (1888) and the The Luck of the Pendennings (1895, Ladies Home Journal).^[2] She contributed essays to the Mobile Sunday Times.^[3] Bellamy died in 1900.

References

1. Willard 1893, pp. 73-74.
2. Warner, Mabie & Warner 1897, p. 52.
3. Tardy 1872, p. 251.

Bibliography

• Tardy, Mary T. (1872). The Living Female Writers of the South (Public domain ed.). Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger.
• 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.
• 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.

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a work in the public domain: F. E. Willard's A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (1893)