This author introduced one character who disparages Dr. Johnson in favour of the Pickwick Papers and who scandalously acknowledges his poverty "in the public street," the oblivious Captain Brown.
This author introduced one character who disparages Dr. Johnson in favour of the Pickwick Papers and who scandalously acknowledges his poverty "in the public street," the oblivious Captain Brown. In another work, a crumpled-up Samuel Bamford poem is found near the scene of a murder and the sailor Will Wilson discusses flying fish with the insect-collector Job Legh. The creator of the unfashionable spinsters Miss Pole and Miss Jenkyns, this author is better-known for a work whose protagonist loses her sister Maria and is insulted by Robert Southey. Jem Wilson is found innocent of shooting a factory-owner's son in a novel about a seamstress by this author of Cranford, who wrote a work of non-fiction detailing her subject's marriage to Arthur Nicholls but omitting a correspondence with Constantin Heger. For ten points, name this wife of a Unitarian minister, the author of Mary Barton and The Life of Charlotte Bronte.
This author introduced one character who disparages Dr. Johnson in favour of the Pickwick Papers and who scandalously acknowledges his poverty "in the public street," the oblivious Captain Brown.
 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell