This was just after her father Labib Farris who was an Egyptian medical student and her mother Ada Violet Rennie married.

[2] She studied in Cairo and the Froebel Demonstration School at the same time as Iris Murdoch.

[2] His position as the Andrew Cecil Bradley Professor of Modern English Literature at Liverpool University was taken over by his wife after his death; by 1981 she was a professor at Birkbeck College.

[3] 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.