Miriam Allott

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 Fulham, London, England
Died	2010 (aged 89–90) Liverpool, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Professor
Employer	Liverpool University 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 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

1. Miriam Allot Series, Liverpool University, Retrieved 4 March 2017
2. 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.