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4 unusual facts about Royall Tyler


Abigail Adams Smith

At the age of 18, Nabby met and fell in love with Royall Tyler.

Royall Tyler

The play's first public showing was shortly after George Washington's inauguration and Washington and several members of the First Congress attended.

His descendant Royall Tyler (born 1936) is a well known scholar and translator of Japanese literature.

The Algerine Captive

The Algerine Captive: or the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: Six Years a Prisoner among the Algerines is one of America's first novels, published anonymously in 1797 by early American author Royall Tyler.



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