Margaret Miniati

Background

She was born in Corfu in 1821 and she was the daughter of Dimitrios Alvanas and Aikaterini Palatianou. Being still a minor, she was adopted by her mother"s sister and her husband, major general Sir Frederick Adam, who at that time served as commissioner of the British Empire in the Ionian Islands.

Career

After receiving a primary education in her home country, she followed her foster family in India where Adam had been transferred. She died in 1887 in Livorno. Her body was moved to Florence where it was buried.

Achievements

• There, she joined the artistic and intellectual circles of the city and she had intensified her work on letters, achieving to gain the admiration of many famous personalities of that time.