Old Wives' Tale

First published in 1908, The Old Wives'' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters--shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia--over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces the sisters'' lives from childhood in their father''s drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, ...