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Showing posts with label Beresford-Howe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beresford-Howe. Show all posts
18 March 2024

Quick! To the Customs House!

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Montreal Customs House, c. 1916 I've been on something of a Constance Beresford-Howe kick this past week, all to do with her 1947 novel...
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11 March 2024

Destination: Montreal

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Of This Day's Journey Constance Beresford-Howe New York: Dodd, Mead, 1947 240 pages A second novel, Of This Day's Journey followed ...
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27 September 2021

Six Forgotten Novelists at the Atwater Library

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This coming Thursday – September 30 – I'll be speaking on "Forgotten Montreal Novelists" at the Atwater Library. Forgotten Mon...
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10 October 2019

Celebrating Constance Beresford-Howe

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McGill student Constance Beresford-Howe had just received her BA when word came that she'd won the Intercollegiate Literary Fello...
13 September 2019

Constance Beresford-Howe Memorial Plaque

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Four weeks from today, Montreal's Writers' Chapel will be celebrating the life and work of Constance Beresford-Howe. The event w...
22 May 2018

The Dustiest Bookcase: B is for Beresford-Howe

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The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). They're in storage as we build o...
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09 June 2015

About Those Butt-Ugly Laurentian Library Books

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"'Butt-ugly' is a bit harsh, don't you think?" writes a friend in response to my description of Macmillian of Cana...
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01 June 2015

Passion Over Reason in a Bland Bachelor's Lap

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The Unreasoning Heart Constance Beresford-Howe New York: Dodd, Mead, 1946 235 pages This review, revisited and revised, now a...
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09 March 2015

Dirty Old Town

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The Town Below [Au pied de la pente douce] Roger Lemelin [trans. Samuel Putnam] New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948 We open on th...
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