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