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Elizabeth Tyler Coleman was a great-granddaughter of President John Tyler and a graduate of the University of Alabama and of Swarthmore College. She was the first female faculty member in the English Department at the University of Alabama, where she taught from 1927 to 1962.
Review Quotes: "This modest and charming biography . . . is a period piece. While Thomas Cooper rose and fell, and Robert Tyler fled a lynching party, and Priscilla gallantly learned her lines and eventually bore her babies, it is the picture of the period illustrated by one family that will attract the reader. William Godwin, Washington Irving, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Daniel Webster, and a host of political figures parade through the pages and are rescued from time by personal letters, conversations, and Priscilla; intelligent, sensitive, now humorous, again pathetic, always bright and courageous."--"The Personalist "