Lizzie Leigh by Elizabeth Gaskell - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By Elizabeth Gaskell

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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781788770231

Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson (Gaskell de casada) nació en Londres en 1810. En 1832 contrajo matrimonio con William Gaskell, ministro unitario, y la pareja se estableció en Manchester, una ciudad sometida a las secuelas de la revolución Industrial. El choque que supuso el contacto con esta sociedad quedaría reflejado en varias de sus novelas: Mary Barton (1848; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR NÚM. LIV) o Norte y Sur (1855; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. XXIV). En 1857 publicó la Vida de Charlotte Brontë (ALBA CLÁSICA BIOGRAFÍAS, núm. IV), una de las biografías más destacadas del siglo XIX. Otras obras suyas son La casa del páramo (1850; ALBA CLÁSICA, núm. CIV), Cranford (1851-1853; ALBA CLÁSICA, núm. XLII), Cuentos góticos (ALBA CLÁSICA, núm. XCIV), Los amores de Sylvia (1863), La prima Phyllis (1863-1864; ALBA CLÁSICA, núm. CIII), e Hijas y esposas (1864-1866; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. XLII), cuyos últimos capítulos dejaría sin concluir a su muerte, acaecida en 1865 en Alton, Hampshire.

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The Complete Works of

ELIZABETH GASKELL

VOLUME 9 OF 20

Lizzie Leigh

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2015

Version 5

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‘Lizzie Leigh’

Elizabeth Gaskell: Parts Edition (in 20 parts)

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Elizabeth Gaskell: Parts Edition

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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;