Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy

Elizabeth (or Emily) Whitfield Croom Bellamy (pen name, Kamba Thorpe; 1837–1900) was an American novelist and essayist.

Elizabeth (or Emily) Whitfield Croom Bellamy was born in Quincy, Florida, 17 April 1839. She was educated in Springer Institute, New York City. She taught in a female seminary in Eutaw, Alabama, for several years. Bellamy wrote under the pen-name "Kamba Thorpe" (sometimes misspelled, "Kampa Thorpe") Four Oaks (New York, 1867), and Little Joanna (New York, 1876). Additional works included Old Man Gilbert (1888) and The Luck of the Pendennings (1895, Ladies Home Journal). She contributed essays to the Mobile Sunday Times. Bellamy died in 1900.