Elizabeth Clementine Stedman
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Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman (December 10, 1810 – November 19, 1889) was an American writer. She was the author of Felicita, a Metrical Romance (1855), Poems (1867), and Bianca Cappello, A Tragedy (1873).
Biography
She was born Elizabeth Clementine Dodge in
Elizabeth was a contributor to the Knickerbocker and to Blackwood's. During a 14-year stay in Europe she was a friend of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She published Felicita, a Metrical Romance (1855), Poems (1867), and Bianco Capello, A Tragedy (1873), written during her time abroad in Italy.[3]
Personal life
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She married Edmund Burke Stedman, a merchant from Hartford, Connecticut, in 1830 at age 19.[3][4] He died of tuberculosis in December 1835.[5] They had two sons, the eldest was the poet and critic Edmund Clarence Stedman.
In 1841, she married the U.S. diplomat and politician, William Burnet Kinney.[6] They remained married until his death in 1880.[3] They had two children:
- Elizabeth Clementine Kinney who married William Ingraham Kip Jr. (1840-1902), the rector of Good Samaritan Missions in San Francisco and the son of Episcopal bishop and missionary to California, William Ingraham Kip. They had four children,[7] three of whom survived to adulthood: Elizabeth Clementine Kip (married Guy L. Eddie of the U.S. Army); Lawrence Kip; and Mary Burnet Kip (married to Dr. Ernest Franklin Robertson of Kansas City, KS).[6]
- Mary Burnet Kinney.[6]
Her great-great-grandsons are businesspeople Frederick R. Koch, Charles Koch, David Koch, and Bill Koch.
Death
She died on November 19, 1889, in Summit, New Jersey, at the age of 78.[8]
Notes
- ISBN 0-8156-0418-1
- ^ The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Volume 1 retrieved January 19, 2013
- ^ Newspapers.com.
- ISBN 0-8156-0418-1
- ISBN 0-8057-7188-3
- ^ a b c Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey edited by Francis Bazley Lee
- ^ A history of the new California: its resources and people, Volume 2 edited by Leigh Hadley Irvine
- Newspapers.com.
References
- Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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