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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. He graduated from Harvard College in 1825 and Harvard Divinity School in 1828.

Bradford joined the Brook Farm community and contributed to some of its publications. 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).

Bradford died on January 26, 1890, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

References

1. ^ Kunitz, Stanley J.; Haycraft, Howard, eds. (1938). American Authors 1600–1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature. H. W. Wilson Company. pp. 92–93.
2. Swift, Lindsay (1908). Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors. Macmillan Publishers. pp. 187–194.
3. Mathews, James P. (1996). "Bradford, George Partridge". In Mott, Wesley T. (ed.). Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism. Greenwood Press. pp. 20–21.
4. Wayne, Tiffany K., ed. (2006). Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism. Facts on File. pp. 27–28. ISBN 0-8160-5626-9. OCLC 58807161.
5. "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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