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).
Biography She was born Elizabeth Clementine Dodge in New York City on December 10, 1810.Gabrielsen, Laura M. "Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman Kinney, 1810–1889" in Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women (Joan N. Burstyn, editor). Syracuse University Press, 1997: 75. 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.The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Volume 1 retrieved January 19, 2013 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.
Personal life
She married Edmund Burke Stedman, a merchant from Hartford, Connecticut, in 1830 at age 19.Gabrielsen, Laura M. "Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman Kinney, 1810–1889" in Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women (Joan N. Burstyn, editor). Syracuse University Press, 1997: 76. He died of tuberculosis in December 1835.Scholnick, Robert J. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977: 13. 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.Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey edited by Francis Bazley Lee They remained married until his death in 1880. They had two children: Elizabeth Clementine Kinney who married William Ingraham Kip Jr. (1840-1902), the rector of Good Samaritan Missions in San Francisco and the son of Episcopal bishop and missionary to California, William Ingraham Kip. They had four children,A history of the new California: its resources and people, Volume 2 edited by Leigh Hadley Irvine three of whom survived to adulthood: Elizabeth Clementine Kip (married Guy L. Eddie of the U.S. Army); Lawrence Kip; and Mary Burnet Kip (married to Dr. Ernest Franklin Robertson of Kansas City, KS). Mary Burnet Kinney.
Her great-great-grandsons are businesspeople Frederick R. Koch, Charles Koch, David Koch, and Bill Koch.
Death She died on November 19, 1889, in Summit, New Jersey, at the age of 78.
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