George Partridge Bradford
George Partridge Bradford (February 16, 1807 – January 26, 1890) was an American writer and teacher.
George Partridge Bradford was born on February 16, 1807, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, to Elizabeth (Hicking) and Gamaliel Bradford.[1][2] He graduated from Harvard College in 1825 and Harvard Divinity School in 1828.[1]
Bradford joined the Brook Farm community and contributed to some of its publications.[1] He gave a few lyceum lectures on English literature in Concord, Massachusetts, and published a book called Thoughts on Spiritual Subjects Translated from the Writings of Fénelon (1843).[3][4]
Bradford died on January 26, 1890, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[5]
References
- Kunitz, Stanley J.; Haycraft, Howard, eds. (1938). American Authors 1600–1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature. H. W. Wilson Company. pp. 92–93.
- Swift, Lindsay (1908). Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors. Macmillan Publishers. pp. 187–194.
- Mathews, James P. (1996). "Bradford, George Partridge". In Mott, Wesley T. (ed.). Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism. Greenwood Press. pp. 20–21.
- Wayne, Tiffany K., ed. (2006). Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism. Facts on File. pp. 27–28. ISBN 0-8160-5626-9. OCLC 58807161.
- "The Late George P. Bradford". Boston Evening Transcript. February 4, 1890. p. 6 – via newspapers.com.
Further reading
- Delano, Sterling F. (2004). Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01160-0. OCLC 53170437.
- Mathews, James W. (1981). "George Partridge Bradford: Friend of Transcendentalists". Studies in the American Renaissance: 133–156. ISSN 0149-015X. JSTOR 30227479.
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