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.
Miriam Allott | |
|---|---|
Prof. Allott | |
| Born | 1920 |
| Died | 2010 (aged 89–90) Liverpool, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Employer(s) | Liverpool University Birkbeck College |
Life
editAllott 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, Kenneth Allott.[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 Andrew Cecil Bradley Professor of Modern English Literature at Liverpool University was taken over by his wife after his death; 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
edit- ^ a b Miriam Allot Series, Liverpool University, Retrieved 4 March 2017
- ^ a b c d e f 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
- ^ Miriam Allott (1965). Novelists on the Novel. Routledge and Kegan Paul.