Constance Beresford-Howe

Constance Beresford-Howe (10 November 1922 – 20 January 2016) was a Canadian novelist.^[1]

Life and career

Constance Beresford-Howe was born in 1922 in Montreal and graduated from McGill University with an BA and MA, and from Brown University, where she completed a Ph.D. in 1950.^[2] She taught English literature and creative writing at McGill in Montreal and Ryerson University in Toronto until her retirement in 1988.^[3]

Beresford-Howe published ten novels between 1946 and 1991. The Book of Eve (1973), her best-known novel, tells the story of a 65-year-old woman who leaves her demanding husband for the freedom to live the way she wants. The stage version, Eve, by Larry Fineberg, premiered at the Stratford Festival in 1976.^[4]

Two of Beresford-Howe’s novels, A Population of One and The Marriage Bed, were made into films by the CBC.^[5]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Unreasoning Heart (1946)
• Of This Day’s Journey (1947)
• The Invisible Gate (1949)
• Lady Greensleeves (1955)
• The Book of Eve (1973)
• A Population of One (1976)
• The Marriage Bed (1981)
• Night Studies (1985)
• Prospero’s Daughter (1988)
• A Serious Widow (1991)

References