Elizabeth Clementine Stedman (1810-1889) was an American

United States

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 writer, a daughter of David L. Dodge, a sister of William E. Dodge

William E. Dodge

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 and the mother of Edmund Clarence Stedman

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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. She was born in New York City

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. She was married first to Edmund B. Stedman, a merchant who died in 1835, and was married again, in 1841, to William Burnet Kinney

William Burnet Kinney

William Burnet Kinney was an American politician and diplomat.His grandfather, Sir Thomas Kinney, came to the United States from England before the Revolution to explore the mineral resources of New Jersey. William Burnet received a good education. After graduating from Princeton University, he...

. She was a contributor to the Knickerbocker

The Knickerbocker

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and to Blackwood's

Blackwood's Magazine

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. During a 14-year stay in Europe

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 she was a friend of Robert Browning

Robert Browning

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 and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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. She published Felicita, a Metrical Romance (1855), Poems (1867), and Bianco Capello

Bianca Cappello

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, A Tragedy, written during her time abroad (1873).