Constance Howell was a novelist and socialist.
Like many contemporary political novelists like 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 Christianity towards freethought. It was reviewed harshly in "The Spectator".
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: "Biography of Jesus Christ", "The After Life of the Apostles" and "History of the Jews".
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