Lizzie Leigh (annotated)

Lizzie Leigh is a classic English fiction novel by the great novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell. 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.