Betty Miller (1910, Cork, Ireland

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 - 1965) was a Jewish author

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 of both literary fiction and non-fiction. She wrote her first novel, The Mere Living (1933), whilst studying journalism at University College London

University College London

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. Her literary reputation was established by the publication of her biography of Robert Browning

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 (1952), which earned her a place in the Royal Society of Literature

Royal Society of Literature

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, though is now out of print. After the Second World War she wrote extensively for literary journals including Horizon, Cornhill and The Twentieth Century. Of her seven novels, only Farewell, Leicester Square is still in print, published by Persephone Books

Persephone Books

Persephone Books is an independent publisher based in Bloomsbury, London. Founded in 1999 by Nicola Beauman, Persephone has a catalogue of 93 "neglected novels, diaries, poetry, short stories, non-fiction, biography and cookery books, mostly by women and mostly dating from the early to...

 in 2000.

She was married to Emanuel Miller (1893–1970), the founding father of British child psychiatry. Her son is Sir Jonathan Miller

Jonathan Miller

Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE is a British theatre and opera director, author, physician, television presenter, humorist and sculptor. Trained as a physician in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in the 1960s with his role in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with fellow writers and...

CBE, the theatre and opera director.