Betty Spiro
married Emanuel Miller
, at the Bayswater synagogue. He was a physician and psychiatrist to whom she had become engaged just three months before this.
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xviii.
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Miller, Jane Eldridge, and Betty Miller. “Preface”. Farewell Leicester Square, Persephone Books, 2000, p. vii - xix.
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Literary responses
Betty Miller
Her Times obituary might be regarded as damning her novels with faint praise. It called her essentially a feminine novelist—using the epithet with no derogatory connotation—applying her talent to sensitive explorations of feeling.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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Literary Setting
Betty Miller
BM
wrote that the military hospital in this work (written in a wartime billet at Droitwich), was one that Emanuel Miller
worked at. Her Major McRae was based on Adrian Stephen
, Virginia Woolf
Timeline
1927: Doctor and psychiatrist Emanuel Miller (later...
Building item
1927
Doctor and psychiatrist Emanuel Miller
(later the husband of novelist Betty Miller
) founded in Spitalfields the East London Child Guidance Clinic
, the first of its kind in Europe.
“Pioneering Child Guidance: A Miller’s Tale”. Prevention Action, 12 Mar. 2008.
