Back home, he studied and then abandoned law, offended when his first case involved the eviction of a widow for failing to pay rent. He next pursued a year-long independent study at Union College, followed by a year in Germany. Bellamy instead desired a military career but was devastated when his frail health ended his West Point ambitions. His father was the town’s longtime Baptist minister, and his mother, a strict Calvinist, dreamed he would follow him into the ministry. Bellamy was born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, which exhibited the class divisions and industrial problems that troubled the sensitive writer. Best known for his utopian novel Looking Backward, 2000–1887 (1888), Edward Bellamy (b. 1850–d. 1898) authored short stories and novels that also explored social themes and employed similar literary devices.
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