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Constance Beresford-Howe (10 November 1922 – 20 January 2016) was a Canadian novelist.
Apr 2, 2008 · Constance Beresford-Howe. Constance Beresford-Howe, novelist (b at Montréal 10 Nov 1922). The author of 10 novels and various magazine pieces, Beresford-Howe was educated at McGill (BA, 1945, MA, 1946) and at Brown University (PhD, 1965).
Feb 5, 2016 · In Constance Beresford-Howe's most famous novel, The Book of Eve, published in 1973, the 65-year-old heroine tries to explain why she bolted from her long marriage to a demanding invalid...
Jan 1, 1991 · Constance Beresford-Howe. 3.94. 82 ratings7 reviews. At the age of 50, newly widowed Rowena Hill feels only relief to be free of her penny-pinching fusspot of a husband.
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Jan 1, 2001 · First published in 1973, The Book of Eve has become a classic. When Eva Carroll walks out on her husband of 40 years, it is an unplanned, completely spontaneous gesture. Yet Eva feels neither guilt nor remorse.
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Constance Beresford-Howe was born in Montreal. Her first novel, The Unreasoning Heart, was published while she was still a student. Since then, she has written eight others, including A Population of One, The Marriage Bed, Prospero’s Daughter , and Night Studies .
SIDELIGHTS: Constance Beresford-Howe gained acclaim in her native Canada as a voice of twentieth-century women, particularly "in their struggle for freedom against popular expectations—both sexist and feminist," according to Barbara Pell in a Dictionary of Literary Biography essay.
