Priscilla Cooper Tyler and the American scene, 1816-1889.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coleman, Elizabeth Tyler.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooper Tyler, Priscilla, 1816-1889.

Cooper Tyler, Priscilla.

Physical Description:

xiii, 203 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimile ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[University] : University of Alabama Press, 1955.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Childhood in New York 1816-1819 1

2 Girlhood in Bristol 1819-1833 10

3 The Curtain Rises 1833-1834 27

4 The Curtain Falls 1835-1838 44

5 A Love Idyll 1839-1844 65

6 White House Years 1841-1844 84

7 Lean Times for the Tylers 1844-1850 108

8 Prologue to Disaster 1850-1860 122

9 War Years 1861-1865 141

10 Reconstruction in Alabama 1865-1877 157

11 Old Age and Death 1877-1889 171.

Notes:

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 177-191).

ISBN:

081735249X

OCLC:

1980492