The seamstress (A Tale of Two Cities) The seamstress (A Tale of Two Cities) The seamstress is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities." The seamstress is an unnamed twenty-year-old woman featured as a desperately poor peasant accused of plotting against the French Republic by Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety during the Terror of the French Revolution in 1793. Found guilty of this imaginary crime, she was condemned to death by beheading. She became acquainted with Charles Darnay during their imprisonments in La Force Prison, and was the only person to recognize Sydney Carton as an impostor as the two of them rode
Against a Dark Background in the tank, self-identifying with the Lazy Gun and the destruction that it brings to everything it encounters. "Against a Dark Background" was rewritten from an original work of 1975. Banks said that it was the last of his old material that he had to rewrite. Banks wrote an epilogue to the book that did not appear with the published text, but is available separately online. "Against a Dark Background", Iain M. Banks, London: Orbit, 1993, (UK) (US) Against a Dark Background Against a Dark Background is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in