Constance Beresford-Howe (1922–2016)
Autor de The Book of Eve
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Constance Beresford-Howe
Of this Day's Journey 1 copia
Of this day's journey 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Beresford-Howe, Constance
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1922-11-10
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2016-01-20
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Montréal, Québec, Canada - Educación
- McGill University (BA, 1945, MA, 1946)
Brown University (PhD, 1965) - Ocupaciones
- novelist
university lecturer - Organizaciones
- McGill University
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute - Biografía breve
- 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). While a member of the McGill department of English (1949-71), she wrote 4 novels exploring the emotional lives of young women: The Unreasoning Heart (1946); Of This Day's Journey (1947); The Invisible Gate (1949); and My Lady Greensleeves (1955).
In 1971, Beresford-Howe moved to Toronto, where she taught English at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson Polytechnic University) until 1987. Since 1971 she has published 6 more novels: The Book of Eve (1973), A Population of One (1977), The Marriage Bed (1981),Night Studies (1985), Prospero's Daughter (1989) and A Serious Widow (1991). These novels concern the daily lives of contemporary women. Eve, a stage adaptation by Larry Fineberg of The Book of Eve, premiered at the STRATFORD FESTIVAL 14 July 1976.
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