William R. Bradshaw

William Richard Bradshaw (January 14, 1851 in County Down[1]–1927) was an Irish-born American author, editor and lecturer who served as president of the New York Anti-Vivisection Society.

Bradshaw died after a brief illness at his home at 37 Locust Street, Flushing on July 19, 1927, aged 75.

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, Jr.

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.

It was published by J. F. Douthitt in 1892, and featured an introduction by Julian Hawthorne and illustrations by Cyrus Durand Chapman.