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    Lizzie Leigh by Elizabeth Gaskell - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781788770231
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    Elizabeth Gaskell

    Mrs Gaskell was born Elizabeth Stevenson in London in 1810. Her mother Eliza, the niece of the potter Josiah Wedgwood, died when she was a child. Much of her childhood was spent in Cheshire, where she lived with an aunt at Knutsford, a town she would later immortalise as Cranford. In 1832, she married a Unitarian minister, William Gaskell (who had a literary career of his own), and they settled in Manchester. The industrial surroundings offered her inspiration for her novels. Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton, was published anonymously in 1848. The best-known of her other novels are Cranford (1853) and North and South (1855). Elizabeth met Charlotte Brontë in 1850, and they struck up a great friendship. After Charlotte's death in 1855, her father, the Reverend Patrick Brontë, asked Gaskell to write her biography to counteract gossip and speculation. The Life of Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857. Gaskell was also a skilled proponent of the ghost story. Her last novel, Wives and Daughters, said by many to be her most mature work remained unfinished at the time of her death in 1865.

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      Lizzie Leigh by Elizabeth Gaskell - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Elizabeth Gaskell

      The Complete Works of

      ELIZABETH GASKELL

      VOLUME 9 OF 20

      Lizzie Leigh

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 5

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Lizzie Leigh’

      Elizabeth Gaskell: Parts Edition (in 20 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 023 1

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      Elizabeth Gaskell: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 9 of the Delphi Classics edition of Elizabeth Gaskell in 20 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Lizzie Leigh from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Elizabeth Gaskell, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Elizabeth Gaskell or the Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      ELIZABETH GASKELL

      IN 20 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Novels

      1, Mary Barton

      2, Cranford

      3, Ruth

      4, North and South

      5, Sylvia’s Lovers

      6, Wives and Daughters

      The Novellas

      7, The Moorland Cottage

      8, Mr. Harrison’s Confessions

      9, Lizzie Leigh

      10, My Lady Ludlow

      11, Lois the Witch

      12, A Dark Night’s Work

      13, Cousin Phillis

      The Short Stories

      14, The Complete Short Stories

      The Poetry

      15, Bran

      16, The Scholar’s Story

      17, Sketches Among the Poor, No. I

      The Non-Fiction

      18, The Life of Charlotte Brontë

      The Biographies

      19, Elizabeth Gaskell by Adolphus William Ward

      20, Mrs. Gaskell and Knutsford by Rev. George A. Payne

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      Lizzie Leigh

      This short novella was first published in 1855.

      An original illustration for the novella

      LIZZIE LEIGH

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER I

      CHAPTER II

      CHAPTER III

      CHAPTER IV

      CHAPTER I

      When Death is present in a household on a Christmas Day, the very contrast between the time as it now is, and the day as it has often been, gives a poignancy to sorrow, — a more utter blankness to the desolation. James Leigh died just as the far away bells of Rochdale Church were ringing for morning service on Christmas Day, 1836. A few minutes before his death, he opened his already glazing eyes, and made a sign to his wife, by the faint motion of his lips, that he had yet something to say. She stooped close down, and caught the broken whisper, ‘I forgive her, Anne! May God forgive me!’

      ‘Oh my love, my dear! only get well, and I will never cease showing my thanks for those words. May God in heaven bless thee for saying them. Thou’rt not so restless, my lad! may be — Oh God!’

      For even while she spoke, he died.

      They had been two-and-twenty years man and wife; for nineteen of those years their life had been as calm and happy, as the most perfect uprightness on the one side, and the most complete confidence and loving submission on the other, could make it. Milton’s famous line might have been framed and hung up as the rule of their married life, for he was truly the interpreter, who stood between God and her;

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