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In 1882 Bellamy married Emma Sanderson, and later they had two children.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2CscJ6GBO-wC&pg=PA34 American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary]</ref>

In 1882 Bellamy married Emma Sanderson, and later they had two children.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2CscJ6GBO-wC&pg=PA34 American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary]</ref>

==Early Life==

==Early life==

American author and social reformer, was born at Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, on the 25th of March 1850. He studied for a time at Union College, Schenectady, New York, and in Germany; was admitted to the bar in 1871; but soon engaged in newspaper work, first as an associate editor of the Springfield Union, Mass., and then as an editorial writer for the New York Evening Post.

American author and social reformer, was born at Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, on the 25th of March 1850. He studied for a time at Union College, Schenectady, New York, and in Germany; was admitted to the bar in 1871; but soon engaged in newspaper work, first as an associate editor of the Springfield Union, Mass., and then as an editorial writer for the New York Evening Post.

==Literary Career==

==Literary career==

After publishing three novelettes (Six to One, Dr Heidenhoff's Process and Miss Ludington's Sister), pleasantly written and showing some inventiveness in situation, but attracting no special notice, in 1888 he caught the public attention with Looking Backward, 2000-1887, in which he set forth ideas of co-operative or semi-socialistic life in village or city communities.

After publishing three novelettes (Six to One, Dr Heidenhoff's Process and Miss Ludington's Sister), pleasantly written and showing some inventiveness in situation, but attracting no special notice, in 1888 he caught the public attention with Looking Backward, 2000-1887, in which he set forth ideas of co-operative or semi-socialistic life in village or city communities.

==Legacy==

==Legacy==

Noted marxist [[Erich Fromm]] wrote the foreword for the 1960 edition of ''Looking Backward''<ref>{{cite book |first1=Edward |last1=Bellamy |first2=Fromm | last2=Erich |title=Looking Backward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LZXNRb5IYIC |year=1960 }}</ref>, in which he wrote regarding Bellamy's word choice:

Noted marxist [[Erich Fromm]] wrote the foreword for the 1960 edition of ''Looking Backward'',<ref>{{cite book |first1=Edward |last1=Bellamy |first2=Fromm | last2=Erich |title=Looking Backward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LZXNRb5IYIC |year=1960 }}</ref> in which he wrote regarding Bellamy's word choice:

{{quotation|He(Bellamy) called this movement "nationalist," referring by this word both to the nationalization of all means of production and to the fact that only this form of society could bring about the rich flowering of a nation's life.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Dwight D. |last1=Murphey |title=Liberal Thought in Modern America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYUjAQAAIAAJ |year=1987 }}</ref>}}

{{quotation|He(Bellamy) called this movement "nationalist," referring by this word both to the nationalization of all means of production and to the fact that only this form of society could bring about the rich flowering of a nation's life.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Dwight D. |last1=Murphey |title=Liberal Thought in Modern America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hYUjAQAAIAAJ |year=1987 }}</ref>}}

* [https://archive.org/details/ParableOfTheWaterTank ''The Parable of the Water Tank''], (1898)

* [https://archive.org/details/ParableOfTheWaterTank ''The Parable of the Water Tank''], (1898)

==See Also==

==See also==

* [[Henry George]]

* [[Henry George]]