| Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman | |
| Birth Name: | Elizabeth Clementine Dodge |
| Birth Date: | 10 December 1810 |
| Birth Place: | New York City, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Summit, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Nationality: | American |
| Children: | 4, including Edmund Clarence Stedman |
| Signature: | Elizabeth Clementine Kinney signature.png |
Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman (December 10, 1810 – November 19, 1889) was an American writer. She was the author of Felicita, a Metrical Romance (1855), Poems (1867), and Bianca Cappello, A Tragedy (1873).
She was born Elizabeth Clementine Dodge in New York City on December 10, 1810.[1] Her father was David Low Dodge, who helped establish the New York Peace Society. Her mother was Sarah Cleveland, the daughter of minister Aaron Cleveland.[2] Her brother was William E. Dodge, noted abolitionist, Native American rights activist, past president of the National Temperance Society, and founding member of YMCA of the USA.
Elizabeth was a contributor to the Knickerbocker and to Blackwood's. During a 14-year stay in Europe she was a friend of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She published Felicita, a Metrical Romance (1855), Poems (1867), and Bianco Capello, A Tragedy (1873), written during her time abroad in Italy.[3]
She married Edmund Burke Stedman, a merchant from Hartford, Connecticut, in 1830 at age 19.[3] [4] He died of tuberculosis in December 1835.[5] They had two sons, the eldest was the poet and critic Edmund Clarence Stedman.
In 1841, she married the U.S. diplomat and politician, William Burnet Kinney.[6] They remained married until his death in 1880.[3] They had two children:
Her great-great-grandsons are businesspeople Frederick R. Koch, Charles Koch, David Koch, and Bill Koch.
She died on November 19, 1889, in Summit, New Jersey, at the age of 78.[8]