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Leigh

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Leigh (lē), town (1991 pop. 42,627), Wigan metropolitan district, NW England, in the Greater Manchester metropolitan area. Industries include cotton and rayon mills, metalworks, and machinery and electrical goods plants.
Leigh1
1. Mike. born 1943, British dramatist and theatre, film, and television director, noted for his use of improvisation. His plays include Abigail's Party (1977), and his films include High Hopes (1988), Secrets and Lies (1996), and All or Nothing (2002)
2. Vivien, real name Vivian Hartley. 1913--67, English stage and film actress. Her films include Gone with the Wind (1939) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), for both of which she won Oscars
Leigh2
a town in NW England, in Wigan unitary authority, Greater Manchester: engineering industries. Pop.: 43 006 (2001)


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And he saw an old room he knew well in England, and Persis Leigh in it, holding out her hands to him and looking glad and happy.
Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
I am glad to remember that at the same time I exulted in these ferocities I had mind enough and heart enough to find pleasure in the truer and finer work, the humaner work of other writers, like Hazlitt, and Leigh Hunt, and Lamb, which became known to me at a date I cannot exactly fix.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
His body, cast on the shore, was burned in the presence of Byron and another radical, Leigh Hunt, and the ashes were buried in the Protestant cemetery just outside the wall of Rome, where Keats had been interred only a year earlier.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
 
 
 
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