William Aspenwall Bradley

LC name authority rec. n 50042937

Biography:

literary adviser, editor, writer

s. William Edward Cleveland and Anna Maria (Aspenwall) B.; A.B., Columbia, 1899, A.M., 1900; m. Jenny Serruys, 1921. Editor and pub. East and West Mag. (with G. S. Hellman), 1899-1900; art dir. and lit. adviser, McClure, Phillips & Co., and The McClure Co., 1900-08. Asso. with Boston Herald, American Mag., Delineator, Yale U. Press, The Macmillan Co., Les Editions George Crès at Cie, etc. First lt., Sanitary Corps U.S.A. (A.E.F.), 1918-19. Field sec. for France, Am. Social Hygiene Assn., 1919. Author: William Cullen Bryant (English Men of Letters Series), 1905; Introduction to Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet (in the Humanist Library), 1912; Meryon and Baudelaire in Prints and Their Makers, 1912; Maxime Lalanne in Print Collectors’ Booklets (Mus. Fine Arts, Boston), 1914; The Etching of Figures, 1915; French Etchers of the Second Empire, 1916; Garlands and Wayfarings, 1917; Old Christmas and other Kentucky Tales in Verse, 1917; Singing Carr and Other Song-Ballets of the Cumberlands, 1918; Dutch Landscape Etchers of the Seventeenth Century, 1919. Translator: Introduction to Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas (by Remy de Gourmont); The Story of Flamenca (arranged from Provençal original of 13th century), 1922; The Journal of Marie Leneru, 1923. Editor of The Garden Muse, 1910, and other vols. Contributing editor The Dial, 1917-18. Asso. editor Ex-Libris, 1923-25; Department of Lettres Anglo-Americaines in Vient de Paraitre, 1924-26. Chevalier Legion of Honor (France). Home: New Canaan, Conn. Death: Died Jan. 9, 1939.

(Bradley, William Aspenwall". 2009. In Marquis Who Was Who in America 1607-1984, MarquisWho'sWho. New Providence: Marquis Who's Who LLC., accessed August 17, 2015, www.credoreference.com)