Constance Beresford-Howe Explained

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

Biography

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. She taught English literature and creative writing at McGill in Montreal and Ryerson University in Toronto until her retirement in 1988.^[2]

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.

Two of Beresford-Howe's novels, A Population of One^[3] and The Marriage Bed,^[4] were made into television films for CBC Television.

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)

Notes and References

1. News: Beresford-Howe, Constance Elizabeth (Pressnell) Educator, Author, Lover of Literature. 25 January 2016. The Globe and Mail. 23 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160203130748/http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20160123.93370324/BDAStory/BDA/deaths. 3 February 2016. dead.
2. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/constance-beresford-howe "Constance Beresford-Howe"
3. Rick Groen, "Change in time warps plot of A Population of One". The Globe and Mail, September 13, 1980.
4. Jim Bawden, "Settling down in Marriage Bed". Toronto Star, December 21, 1986.