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Constance Howell

Novelist and socialist

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Constance Howell was a writer and novelist.

Constance Howell (fl. 1877-1900) was a socialist and political novelist.

Career Howell was a socialist and her novels had a political dimension. Like contemporary political novelists, such as Clementina Black and Margaret Harkness, Howell's novels sometimes suffered from political critique. Her most well-known novel was A More Excellent Way (1888), which is thought to be semi-autobiographical. It recounts the "counter-conversion" of the protagonist Agatha Hathaway away from her upper class upbringing and Christianity and towards freethought and socialism. It was reviewed harshly in The Spectator, and To-day: Monthly Magazine of Scientific Socialism wrote that:

Howell also wrote a series of three books for children during the 1880s, which explained elements of Western religious history from a critical freethinking perspective and all shared the subtitle "Written for Young Freethinkers". These were: Biography of Jesus Christ (1883), The After Life of the Apostles (1884) and History of the Jews (1885).

Identity Howell's dates of birth and death are currently unknown.

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Daisy and the Earl: A Novel (1877) Many Days After: A Novel (1900)

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