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Constance Beresford-Howe
Constance Beresford-Howe (10 November 1922 – 20 January 2016) was a Canadian novelist.
Life and career.
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.
Beresford-Howe published ten novels between 1946 and 1991. "The Book
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