Miriam Allott

Miriam Allott
Prof. Allott
Born 1920
Fulham
Died 2010
Liverpool
Nationality British
Occupation Professor
Employer Liverpool University & Birkbeck College

Miriam Allott or Miriam Farris; Miriam Farris Allott; Miriam Allott-Farris (1920–2010) was an English literary scholar. She was a professor in Liverpool and at Birkbeck College.

Life

Allott was born in Cairo[1] or Fulham in 1920. This was just after her father Labib Farris who was an Egyptian medical student and her mother Ada Violet Rennie married.[2] She studied in Cairo and the Froebel Demonstration School at the same time as Iris Murdoch. She then went to Liverpool University. After her degree in general studies she taught[2] and studied for a doctorate in English literature on Henry James. She was supervised by her future husband.[1] She became a lecturer in Liverpool University in 1948.[2]

Her husband's first marriage ended in 1950 and she married him on 1 June 1951.[2] His position as the Kenneth Muir Professor of English at Liverpool University was taken over by his wife after his death, although by 1981 she was a professor at Birkbeck College.[2]

Allott died in Liverpool in 2010. She had published a selection of Keats' poetry and Novelists on the Novel in 1959.[3] She left her wealth to fund a lecturer at Liverpool University. She was also a collector and left her collections to the university and its own Victoria Gallery and Museum.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Miriam Allot Series, Liverpool University, Retrieved 4 March 2017
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ian Sansom, 'Allott, Kenneth Cyril Bruce (1912–1973)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2015 accessed 4 March 2017
  3. ↑ Miriam Allott (1965). Novelists on the Novel. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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