Cranford

Mrs Bell played by Lesley Sharp

Mrs Bell (Lesley Sharp)
A widow, Mrs Bell is quietly mocked by Cranford’s ladies for her dramatic display of grief at her husband’s graveside each Sunday. Though genuinely bereft by his death, she has not only locked herself into this weekly ritual but refuses all social invitations, thereby dooming her children to a lonely life with little social contact. She now lives entirely for her domineering son, Edward, of whom she is rather in awe. Peggy will always be second best and functions at home more as a drudge than as a daughter.