Constance Isabel Smith

{{Short description|British novelist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}} {{Use British English|date=October 2016}} '''Constance Isabel Smith''' (June 1894 – after 1932) was a popular British novelist. She was born in Battersea, London, to Sydney James Smith, a tailor, and Isabel Smith. In 1911 they were living at 7 Spencer Road, New Wandsworth, Battersea, London and Constance was a student.<ref>1911 Census</ref>

== Life and works == Constance Isabel Smith's novels include ''Adam's First Wife'' (1920), ''Intensity: A Simple Story'' (1921), ''The Escaped Wife'' (1924), ''Storm Dust'' (1925), ''Just Impediment?'' (1925), ''Lotus Lane: The Story of a Marriage'' (1927), and ''The Tenth of March'' (1929).

She also wrote under the pseudonyms '''Isabel Beaumont''' and '''Eleanor Reid'''.<ref>''The Book Review Digest'', Volume 104, Issue 4, H.W. Wilson Company, p 480 [https://books.google.com/books?id=DU3dgrR9eaIC&dq=Constance+Isabel+Smith&pg=PA480]</ref>

Writing as Isabel Beaumont, she won the 250-guinea Melrose Prize for her 1922 novel ''Secret Drama''.<ref>''The Nation and the Athenaeum'', Volume 32, Part 1 The Nation Publishing Company Limited, 1923 [https://books.google.com/books?id=GQT0AAAAMAAJ&q=Isabel+Beaumont+Smokeless+Burning]</ref><ref>Secret Drama (review),'' New Statesman'', Vol, 20, 1922</ref> She followed this with ''Smokless Burning'' (1922).<ref>{{cite journal |author= |date=March 1923 |title=Smokeless Burning |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/3060680 |journal=The Bookman |volume=63 |issue=378 |pages=294 |doi= |access-date=2 April 2021|id={{ProQuest|3060680}} }}</ref>

Writing as Eleanor Reid, she published ''The Fortunate Woman'' (1922), ''Marrying Madeline'' (1922), ''The Fallen'' (1923), ''Through the Curtains'' (1925), ''The Barrington Scandal'' (1925), ''Mackerel Sky'' (1926), ''The Tenth of March'' (1929), ''Last Will and Testament'' (1930), and ''A Wife and Child'' (1932).

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