In addition to Wives and Daughters and Ruth, this author wrote a novel in which Lady Glenmire is denounced for her engagement to a doctor by Mrs. Jamieson and also includes the characters Miss Matty Jenkyns and Mary Smith.  
In one work by this author, a proposal from Walter Henderson causes Roger Hamley to be dumped by Cynthia Kirkpatrick, although he is then picked up by Molly Gibson, and in another, the title character contracts a fatal illness from Mr. Donne, who is actually the youth who took her to Wales as a girl, Bellingham.  In addition to Wives and Daughters and Ruth, this author wrote a novel in which Lady Glenmire is denounced for her engagement to a doctor by Mrs. Jamieson and also includes the characters Miss Matty Jenkyns and Mary Smith.  In another novel, Will's testimony concerning the murder of Henry Carson saves his cousin Jem Wilson, who is in love with the title character.  FTP, name this author of Cranford and Mary Barton.
In one work by this author, a proposal from Walter Henderson causes Roger Hamley to be dumped by Cynthia Kirkpatrick, although he is then picked up by Molly Gibson, and in another, the title character contracts a fatal illness from Mr. Donne, who is actually the youth who took her to Wales as a girl, Bellingham.  
Elizabeth Gaskell