William A. Bradley Literary Agency Records 1909-1982

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William A. Bradley Literary Agency Records 1909-1982

The William A. Bradley Literary Agency Records document the work and personal lives of William and Jenny Bradley as literary agents in Paris for most of the twentieth century. After William A. Bradley's death in 1939, Jenny Bradley assumed responsibility for the agency maintaining William A. Bradley as the literary agency's name until her death in 1982. Representing mostly American, English, and French authors, the William A. Bradley Literary Agency counted Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Richard Wright among its numerous clients.

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