Beard's Roman Women

Beard's Roman Women is a 1976 novel by British novelist Anthony Burgess.

Dated "Montalbuccio-Monte Carlo-Eze-Callian, Summer 1975", according to Burgess it was written in the back of his Bedford Dormobile as he and his wife, Liana Burgess toured Europe and "partly in the bedroom of a small hotel run by Swiss homosexuals" (You've Had Your Time).

The novel is set in Rome and is apparently based on Burgess's experience of being widowed in the mid-1960s. Burgess's wife, Liana, is depicted as Paola Lucrezia Belli in the novel.

Photographs in the original edition were by David Robinson. In 2018, a new edition was published by Manchester University Press, restoring the photographs for the first time since the first edition. There is also a new introduction by Graham Foster, a fully annotated text, and several appendices of previously unpublished writing by Burgess.