Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) was an American author, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his best-selling utopian novel Looking Backward: 2000–1887 and its sequel Equality. Bellamy’s writing influenced some of the most well-known intellectuals and political leaders of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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‘Looking Backward’ to the Future

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When American author Edward Bellamy published his utopian novel Looking Backward: 2000 – 1887 in 1888, he didn’t know that it would be one of the best-selling books of the era; that it would inspire a political groups around the world; or that some of the most prominent intellectuals of the time would count it as an influence on their thinking.