Gamaliel Bradford (biographer)
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Gamaliel Bradford VI | |
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| Born | October 9, 1863 |
| Died | April 11, 1932 (aged 68) |
| Nationality |  American |
| Occupation | biographer |
| Spouse | Helen Hubbard Ford |
| Children | 2 |
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Gamaliel Bradford VI (October 9, 1863 – April 11, 1932)[1] was an American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, the sixth of seven men called Gamaliel Bradford in unbroken succession, of whom the first, Gamaliel Bradford, was a great-grandson of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. His grandfather, Dr. Gamaliel Bradford of Boston, was a noted abolitionist.[2]
Early life[edit]
Bradford attended Harvard University briefly with the class of 1886, then continued his education with a private tutor, but is said to have been educated "mainly by ill-health and a vagrant imagination."[3] As an adult, Bradford lived in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The building and student newspaper[4] for the Wellesley High School (where Sylvia Plath received her secondary school education[5]) were named after Gamaliel Bradford. The town changed the name of the building to Wellesley High School, but the newspaper maintains Bradford's name.
Career[edit]
In his day Bradford was regarded as the "Dean of American Biographers."[6] He is acknowledged as the American pioneer of the psychographic form of written biographies, after the style developed by Lytton Strachey.[7] Despite suffering poor health during most of his life, Bradford wrote 114 biographies over a period of 20 years.
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He was friends with fellow Harvard University graduate and poet, George Faunce Whitcomb, as he inscribed the book, Jewels of Romance with the words: "To Gamaliel Bradford with deepest gratitude, George Faunce Whitcomb, Easter 1930, Brookline, Massachusetts".[8]
Death[edit]
Bradford died on April 11, 1932, in Wellesley, Massachusetts.[9]
Bibliography[edit]
- A Pageant of Life (poetry)
- A Prophet of Joy (poetry)
- Shadow Verses (poetry)
- Unmade in Heaven (drama), 1917.
- Lee, the American, 1912.
- American Portraits, 1875-1900
- Union Portraits, 1916.
- Confederate Portraits, 1914.
- Portraits of Women
- Portraits of American Women, 1919.
- Wives, 1925.
- Darwin, 1926.
- Saints and Sinners, 1932.
- A Naturalist of Souls: Studies in Psychography (reprinted in part from various periodicals), 1917.
- Life and I (autobiography)
- Elizabethan Women, 1936.
Articles[edit]
- "Government in the United States," The Contemporary Review, Vol. XLVIII, July/December 1885.
- "Municipal Government," Scribners, October 1887.
- "A Hero's Conscience: A Study of Robert E. Lee," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CVI, December 1910, pp. 730–39.
- "Journalism and Permanence," The North American Review, August 1915.
- "A Confederate Pepys," The American Mercury, December 1925.
References[edit]
- ^ "Gamaliel Bradford" Encyclopædia Britannica: History & Society:
- ^ Mathews, James W. (1991). "Dr. Gamaliel Bradford (1795-1839), Early Abolitionist" (PDF). Historical Journal of Massachusetts. 19 (1).
- ^ Braithwaite, William Stanley, ed.. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1919: and Year Book of American Poetry. Small, Maynard & Company. 1919. p.301.
- ^ The Bradford Archived October 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Alexander, Paul. Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath.
- ^ "Bradford, Gamaliel". (2009). In Student Encyclopædia. Retrieved November 24, 2009, from Britannica Online for Kids. [1]
- ^ Colby, Frank Moore; Sandeman, George. Nelson's Encyclopaedia. p. 341.
- ^ Whitcomb, George Faunce (1922). Jewels of Romance. Boston: The G. R. Willis & Co., Inc. p. 3.
- ^ "Gamaliel Bradford Dies in Wellesley". The Boston Globe. Wellesley (published April 12, 1932). April 11, 1932. p. 17. Retrieved March 27, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- "Gamaliel Bradford" Encyclopædia Britannica: Online, student article; on-line source, accessed: May 4, 2007.
- Bradford, Gamaliel, 1863-1932. Correspondence: Guide; Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University; on-line source, accessed: May 4, 2007.
External links[edit]
- Works by or about Gamaliel Bradford at Internet Archive
- Works by Gamaliel Bradford at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Gamaliel Bradford letters at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
