Background
Bradshaw was born in 1851 in Ireland and brought to the United States as an infant.
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Bradshaw was born in 1851 in Ireland and brought to the United States as an infant.
He is known best for his science fiction-type novel The Goddess of Atvatabar. He was a resident of Flushing, Queens, New York from 1896 until his death (residing at 57 Street George"s Place, Flushing, during December, 1913). He was an active participant of anti-vivisectionism for many years.
Bradshaw died after a brief illness at his home at 37 Locust Street, Flushing on July 19, 1927, aged 75.
Bradshaw contributed regularly to a number of magazines, and served as editor of two of them, Literary and later The Decorator and, from 1890 to 1896, Decorator and Furnisher. He was also associated with Field and Stream magazine.
He wrote a number of books, most importantly on vivisection, but is remembered mainly for a work of fiction, The Goddess of Atvatabar: being the history of the discovery of the interior world, and conquest of Atvatabar, a Utopian hollow Earth novel using Symmesian geography from the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Junior. Entering the interior of the world via a Symmes Hole, the protagonists from the world above find an advanced civilization who use spiritual power to do everything from maintain youth to resurrect the dead.
In a civil war that erupts following the Atvatabar Goddess"s love for a surface man, Lexington White, the ruling powers are overthrown and Lexington White becomes the new king of Atvatabar, the Goddess his queen, and rich trade relations with the surface are opened.
lieutenant was published by J. F. Douthitt in 1892, and featured an introduction by Julian Hawthorne and illustrations by Cyrus Durand Chapman.
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A member of the Republican party, he served as a party district captain in Flushing.