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Betty Miller (Spiro)

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Birthplace: Cork, Cork City, Cork, Ireland
Death: November 1965 (54-55)
England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Simon Spiro and Sara Spiro
Wife of Emanuel Miller
Mother of Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller and Sarah Miller
Sister of Dorothy Spiro; Henry William Spiro and Julian Spiro

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About Betty Miller

Betty Miller (née Spiro) (1910, Cork, Ireland - 1965) was a Jewish author of both literary fiction and non-fiction.

She wrote her first novel, The Mere Living (1933), whilst studying journalism at University College London.

Her literary reputation was established by the publication of her biography of Robert Browning (1952), which earned her a place in the Royal Society of Literature.

After the Second World War she wrote extensively for literary journals including Horizon, Cornhill and The Twentieth Century.
Of her seven novels, two are still in print: Farewell, Leicester Square (1941), published by Persephone Books in 2000, and On the Side of the Angels (1945), published by Capuchin Classics in 2012.

In 1933, she married Emanuel Miller (1892–1970), the founding father of British child psychiatry.

The couple had two children: Sarah, now deceased in 2006, and Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, the theatre and opera director.

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Betty Miller's Timeline

1910
1910
Cork, Cork City, Cork, Ireland
1934
July 21, 1934
London, United Kingdom
1965
November 1965
Age 55
England, United Kingdom
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