The Old Wives' Tale

The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett,
first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters,
Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working
in their mother's draper's shop, into old age. It is generally regarded as one
of Bennett's finest works. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly
1840 to 1905, and is set in Burslem and Paris.

— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.