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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 (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.