Word: gamaliel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Gamaliel Bradford, 68, biographer (Damaged Souls, Darwin, The Quick & The Dead); after lingering illness; in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Eighth in lineal descent from Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony, he termed himself a "psychographer." Critics called him "the U. S. Lytton Strachey," rated him less urbane and epigrammatic but more profound. An essayist and editorialist (for the Boston Herald), he said: "My biographical work is laborious and hard. . . . But plays and novels! It's easy and fun to write them. . . . That's what . . . I've done year after year without much encouragement." Biographer Bradford, though sickly...
THIS volume, issued shortly before his death, is probably the last which may be expected from the late Gamaliel Bradford. Due to his constant illness, he worked very slowly, and it is unlikely that more than a few short sketches will be added to his published works. Happily the biographical studies included in "Saints and Sinners" are a fitting memorial to a writer who was exceptional in the breadth and sympathy of his interests...
...youth of nineteen possessed a knack for writing, and despite his overwhelming drawback of poor health determined to educate himself and apply his talent in examining the lives of the great. Retiring to a quiet country town be began a career which has won for the name Gamaliel Bradford international recognition as one of the biographers...
...discriminating scholar, Gamaliel Bradford is noted chiefly for his development of "psychography," as he calls it, a method of biography which discarding, as far as possible, chronology and external facts seeks only to reveal the innermost character of the subject. His admiration of Saint-Beuve was shown early in his widely acclaimed works on Emerson, Lee, and Pepys; ever since that time, with amazing versatility, he has continued to lay bare the souls of obscure and misunderstood characters. Despite justified charges of superficiality, his popularity attracted imitators, but the peculiar intimacy of his style defied duplication; his creation has remained...
...host to small groups of distinguished friends who enjoyed leisurely hours of pleasant reading. His courageous struggle against fragile health gives proof of praiseworthy perseverance; his occasional attempts at fiction and poetry reveal an attractively human weakness. A refined and keen judgment coupled with a dignified scholarly career mark Gamaliel Bradford as an unusually attractive character, well worthy of the high esteem he enjoyed as a biographer...