Gamaliel Bradford VI
Born(1863-10-09)October 9, 1863
Boston, Massachusetts, US
DiedApril 11, 1932(1932-04-11) (aged 68)
Wellesley, Massachusetts, US
NationalityUnited States American
Occupationbiographer
SpouseHelen Hubbard Ford
Children2
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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

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

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.

c. 1925

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

Bradford died on April 11, 1932, in Wellesley, Massachusetts.[9]

Bibliography

Articles

References

  1. ↑ "Gamaliel Bradford" Encyclopædia Britannica: History & Society:
  2. ↑ Mathews, James W. (1991). "Dr. Gamaliel Bradford (1795-1839), Early Abolitionist" (PDF). Historical Journal of Massachusetts. 19 (1).
  3. ↑ Braithwaite, William Stanley, ed.. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1919: and Year Book of American Poetry. Small, Maynard & Company. 1919. p.301.
  4. ↑ The Bradford Archived October 12, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Alexander, Paul. Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath.
  6. ↑ "Bradford, Gamaliel". (2009). In Student Encyclopædia. Retrieved November 24, 2009, from Britannica Online for Kids.
  7. ↑ Colby, Frank Moore; Sandeman, George. Nelson's Encyclopaedia. p. 341.
  8. ↑ Whitcomb, George Faunce (1922). Jewels of Romance. Boston: The G. R. Willis & Co., Inc. p. 3.
  9. ↑ "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.
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