Constance beresford howe biography of william hill
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Constance Beresford-Howe
Canadian novelist (1922–2016)
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.
Constance beresford howe biography of william hill
in 1950.[citation needed] 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.[2]
Two of Beresford-Howe's novels, A Population of One[3] and The Marriage Bed,[4] were made into television films for CB