The Old Wives' Tale: A New Ed

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Doubleday, Doran, Incorporated, 1928 - Domestic fiction - 612 pages
A classic work of English fiction which celebrates the romance of even the most ordinary lives as it tells the story of the two Baines sisters, placid stay-at-home Constance and rebellious Sophia, from their girlhood to their last days. They move from the family drapery shop in provincial Bursley during the repressive mid-Victorian period to old age in the modern era of mass marketing and the internal combustion engine. The setting ranges from the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Bursley to a Paris brothel, the action from the controlled domestic routine of the Baines household to wife murder and the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1.

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THE WIDOW VII BRICKS AND MORTAR VIII THE PROUDEST MOTHER PAGE
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THE ELOPEMENT
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