Edward Bellamy was a literary man of no great distinction. Frail - TopicsExpress



          

Edward Bellamy was a literary man of no great distinction. Frail and tubercular he had to abandon journalism as too strenuous and took up writing novels in a desperate attempt to make a living. The novels sold moderately, perhaps enough to eke out a living on the bottom rung of middle class respectability. They had no particular merit or anything to distinguish them from hundreds of others published annually. Certainly none would be remembered or read today. Then he tried his hand at a social fantasy. Overnight, it seemed he and his book Looking Backward were both famous and the center of an exciting popular reform movement.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:16:29 +0000

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