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"The Old Wives’ Tale" was written by Arnold Bennett. Prolific English novelist known for his realistic portrayals of life in the Staffordshire Potteries.

The Old Wives’ Tale

Name: The Old Wives’ Tale
Author: Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett

Step into the mid-19th century English Midlands, where the Baines sisters, Sophia and Constance, find their lives diverging from a shared Bursley draper's shop. Sophia, impetuous and beautiful, elopes to the glittering, tumultuous world of Paris, embracing a life of unexpected twists and turns. Meanwhile, the steadfast Constance remains rooted in her provincial hometown, marrying the family employee and finding her own quiet dramas amidst the familiar rhythms of domesticity. Bennett masterfully chronicles their parallel yet disparate journeys through the decades, from youthful dreams to the quiet dignity of old age, against a backdrop of societal change and personal evolution.

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The Old Wives’ Tale, considered to be one of Bennett’s finest works, begins in the 1860s, in the industrial “Five Towns”...