Constance beresford howe biography examples

  • Biography.
  • Constance Beresford-Howe gained acclaim in her native Canada as a voice of twentieth-century women, particularly in their struggle for freedom against popular.
  • A professor, creative writing teacher and pioneering feminist novelist, she wrote 10 trail-blazing novels during her career – all of which dealt with women.

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    Now almost forgotten and seriously neglected by feminist scholarship, Constance Beresford-Howe was a true ground-breaking forerunner of much of what now passes as women's activism. Born in 1922 in Montreal of a middle-class Anglophone family, she went on to earn a doctorate from Brown University in the United States and to join the English Department at McGill University in Montreal where, among other subjects, she pioneered in the teaching of creative writing. She scored a major coup when her first novel, The Invisible Gatewritten in her early twenties, was published by a prestigious American publisher, Dodd Mead in 1949. She went on to publish a total of ten significant novels developing a strong voice on women's issues at a time when the literary world, with a few exceptions, was the domain of male authors. She was an exceptional observer and celebrant of women

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    Constance Beresford-Howe (1922-2016) may not be a household name today, but she should be. A professor, creative writing teacher and pioneering feminist novelist, she wrote 10 trail-blazing novels during her career – all of which dealt with women seeking identity and independence. Her most famous and successful novel, The Book of Eve –along with two others – was written right here in Leaside.

    The Montreal years

    Beresford-Howe came to Leaside from Montreal, where she was born in 1922. She attended McGill University and later Brown University in Rhode Island, where she earned her Ph.D. in literature. While still at McGill, she published her first novel The Unreasoning Heart in 1946. Three more novels followed – all of which focused on the emotional lives of young female characters. In a review of her third work, The Invisible Gate, Globe & Mail literary critic (and Leasider) William Arthur Deacon praised her as “the equal of any Canadian now writing” (Globe, Dec. 3, 1949).

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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

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    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.[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

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