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

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Life

Allott was born in

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Miriam Allot Series
Liverpool University, Retrieved 4 March 2017 or

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in 1920. This was just after her father Labib Farris who was an Egyptian medical student and her mother Ada Violet Rennie married. She studied in

and the Froebel Demonstration School at the same time as

Iris Murdoch Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( ; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her fi ...

. She then went to

Liverpool University The University of Liverpool (abbreviated UOL) is a public research university in Liverpool, England. Founded in 1881 as University College Liverpool, Victoria University, it received Royal Charter by King Edward VII in 1903 attaining the de ...

. After her degree in general studies she taught and studied for a doctorate in English literature on

Henry James Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the ...

. She was supervised by her future husband,

Kenneth Allott Kenneth Cyril Bruce Allott (29 August 1912 – 23 May 1973) was an Anglo-Irish poet and academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold. Life Allott was the elder son of Hubert Cyril Willoughby Allott and his wife Rose (née Finlay).Ian Sansom, ‘Allo ...

. She became a lecturer in

in 1948. Her husband's first marriage ended in 1950 and she married him on 1 June 1951. 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

.Ian Sansom, 'Allott, Kenneth Cyril Bruce (1912–1973)', ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 201
accessed 4 March 2017
/ref> Allott died in

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in 2010. She had published a selection of

Keats John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tub ...

' poetry and ''Novelists on the Novel'' in 1959. 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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Allott, Miriam 1920 births 2010 deaths People from Fulham Academics of Birkbeck, University of London Academics of the University of Liverpool English expatriates in Egypt