Elizabeth C. Kinney

Elizabeth Clementine Stedman (1810-1889) was an American poet and prose writer.

Life
She was born Elizabeth Clementine Dodge in New York City. Her father was David L. Dodge, who helped establish the New York Peace Society. Her mother was Sarah Cleveland, the daughter of minister Aaron Cleveland. Her brother was William E. Dodge, noted abolitionist, Native American rights activist, past president of the National Temperance Society, and founding member of the Young Men's Christian Association.

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.

Personal life
She was married first to Edmund B. Stedman, a merchant who died in 1835. They had a son, the poet Edmund Clarence Stedman. In 1841, she married the U.S. diplomat and politician, William Burnet Kinney. 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, 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).
 * Mary Burnet Kinney.

Publications
She published Felicita, a Metrical Romance (1855), Poems (1867), and Bianco Capello, A Tragedy, written during her time abroad (1873).