The Old Wives’ Tale

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The Old Wives’ Tale is a 1908 novel by Arnold Bennett that traces the contrasting lives of two sisters from a Staffordshire draper’s shop through decades of social change in England and France.

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instanceOf novel ⓘ
author Arnold Bennett ⓘ
centralTheme aging ⓘ
family life ⓘ
marriage ⓘ
provincial versus cosmopolitan life ⓘ
social change ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
criticalReception highly praised by contemporaries ⓘ
regarded as one of Arnold Bennett’s masterpieces ⓘ
depicts a Staffordshire draper’s shop ⓘ
firstEditionFormat print ⓘ
genre domestic fiction ⓘ
realist novel ⓘ
hasAdaptation The Old Wives’ Tale (stage adaptations) ⓘ
hasAlternateTitle The Old Wives’ Tale: A Novel ⓘ
hasNarrativeStyle third-person omniscient ⓘ
hasPageCountApprox 800 ⓘ
hasSubject English provincial towns ⓘ
Franco-Prussian War ⓘ
class and social mobility ⓘ
commerce and small business ⓘ
women’s lives ⓘ
includedIn 20th-century English literature canon ⓘ
influenced later 20th-century English realist fiction ⓘ
literaryMovement realism ⓘ
literaryPeriod Edwardian literature ⓘ
mainCharacter Constance Baines ⓘ
Gerald Scales ⓘ
Samuel Povey ⓘ
Sophia Baines ⓘ
narrativeScope spansSeveralDecades ⓘ
notableFor detailed depiction of provincial English life ⓘ
psychological realism ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
partOf Arnold Bennett’s Five Towns cycle ⓘ
publicationYear 1908 ⓘ
publisher Chatto & Windus ⓘ
settingLocation Bursley ⓘ
France ⓘ
Paris ⓘ
Staffordshire ⓘ
structure dividedIntoFourBooks ⓘ
timePeriodDepicted 19th century ⓘ
early 20th century ⓘ

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Burslem → inLiterature → The Old Wives’ Tale ⓘ
Arnold Bennett → notableWork → The Old Wives' Tale ⓘ
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The Old Wives’ Tale → hasAdaptation → The Old Wives’ Tale (stage adaptations) ⓘ
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The Old Wives’ Tale → hasAlternateTitle → The Old Wives’ Tale: A Novel ⓘ
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The Five Towns stories → notableWorkInCycle → The Old Wives’ Tale ⓘ
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The Grand Babylon Hotel → isFollowedBy → The Old Wives' Tale (in Bennett’s major works chronology) ⓘ
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Arnold Bennett → notableWork → The Old Wives’ Tale ⓘ
subject linked to: Marguerite Soulié
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Constance Baines → fictionalUniverse → The Old Wives’ Tale ⓘ
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Gerald Duckworth and Company → hasPublishedWork → The Old Wives’ Tale ⓘ
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