Bellamy initially studied law and was admitted to the bar, but his literary interest was stronger and he took a job with the Springfield Union, later moving to the New York Post. His first novel, The Duke of Stockbridge, appeared in 1879. Bellamy contributed many short stories to magazines and these were subsequently collected in The Blind Man's World and Other Stories (1898). In 1888, Bellamy published Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887, a futuristic utopian novel which was immensely popular and became the biggest selling American work since Uncle Tom's Cabin. The views that Bellamy expressed in Looking Backward were influential in establishing the Nationalist movement in America. Bellamy founded the Nationalist (1888-91), a monthly magazine devoted to this movement and also founded the weekly New Nation (1891-94). Bellamy's other works include Dr. Heindenhoff's Process (1880), Miss Ludington's Sister (1884) and Equality (1894). |
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