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.

Life Allott was born in Cairo 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.

Allott died in Liverpool in 2010. She had published a selection of Keats' 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.