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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.
The Old Wives' Tale is a 1921 British drama film directed by Denison Clift and starring Fay Compton, Florence Turner and Henry Victor. [1] It is based on the 1908 novel The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett .
The Old Wives' Tale: BBC 1964 – five-part dramatisation, with Frances Cuka and Lana Morris; Lord Raingo: BBC 1966 – four-part dramatisation, with Kenneth More; Imperial Palace: BBC 1969 – four-part dramatisation, with Roy Dotrice and Cyril Luckham; Whom God Hath Joined: BBC 1970, with Brian Blessed; The Price of Love: BBC 1970, with ...
Bennett usually gave his novels subtitles; the most frequent was "A fantasia on modern themes", [n 14] individual books were called "A frolic" or "A melodrama", but he was sparing with the label "A novel" which he used for only a few of his books – for instance Anna of the Five Towns, Leonora, Sacred and Profane Love, The Old Wives' Tale, The ...
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The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction comments, "After the critical and commercial success of The Old Wives' Tale (1908), Clayhanger set the seal on Bennett's reputation as the laureate of the commonplace". The article adds that the conflict between father and son "is also a conflict between eras: between Victorian thrift and (somewhat ...
Woman Runs Experiments to Debunk Old Wives' Tale About Cats and Babies. Diana Logan. May 30, 2024 at 10:29 AM. Shutterstock / Sharomka.
Sophia and Constance is a British drama television series that originally aired on the BBC in six episodes from 13 April to 18 May 1988. [1] It was an adaptation of the 1908 novel The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett, which follows the lives of two sisters through the Victorian era.