Elizabeth C. Stedman Kinney (1810-1889), from The New Jersey Scrap Book of Women Writers, 1893. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Elizabeth Clementine Stedman Kinney (1810-1889) was an American poet.
Life[]
Kinney 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.[1] Her brother was William E. Dodge, a 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.[2] 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,[3] 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).[2]
- Mary Burnet Kinney.[2]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Felicita, a Metrical Romance. New York: J.S. Dickerson, 1855.
- Poems. New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1867.
Plays[]
- Bianco Capello: A tragedy, New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1873.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Volume 1 retrieved January 19, 2013
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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
- ↑ Search results = au:Elizabeth Kinney, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 13, 2013.
External links[]
- Poems
- "A Dream"
- Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Kinney at 19th Century Women's Poetry.
- Poems by Elizabeth Clementine Kinney in An American Anthology 1787-1900: "A Dream," "Moonlight in Italy," "The Blind Psalmist," "The Quakeress Bride," "To the Boy"
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