Miriam Allott Writers Series - Centre for New and International Writing

Professor Miriam Farris Allott

Professor Miriam Farris Allott (1920-2010) was born in Cairo and graduated with a General degree from the University of Liverpool in 1940. She completed her doctoral thesis on Henry James under the supervision of Kenneth Allott. A renowned 19th century scholar with an international reputation for her work on James, Keats, E.M. Forster, the Brontës and Matthew Arnold, she held the second A.C. Bradley chair and was the first woman professor in the Department of English. After taking up a chair at Birkbeck College, she returned to Liverpool as Emeritus Professor. Her bequest of Arnold editions and studies is now located in the School of the Arts Library.

In celebration of Miriam Allott's work and life, the Centre is now host, through the reading series, to a diverse range of emerging, new and international writers. From working journalists from the national and international press to highly acclaimed novelists and poets, this series aims to engage with Liverpool’s vast cultural and literary heritage.

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