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]
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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.