skygiants/bookelfe nominated it, she had a letter up too I think. :)

Marjoribanks is so far the only comedy I've read of Oliphant's - similarly Cranford is the only really hilarious Gaskell I've read. But I don't think Lizzie Leigh is necessarily any more representative of her body of work than Cranford. On a scale from LL to Cranford, her other novels like North & South and Wives & Daughters fall in the middle - manners and romance, as well as class issues.