The seamstress (A Tale of Two Cities) entire novel. Carton's last meaningful action in his life is to provide solace to the seamstress in her last moments, in which Dickens effectively continues his theme of redemption in the novel as Carton moves on to a supposed better life. Doris Y. Kadish describes the seamstress as "a humble heroine of the revolution," while "Lisa Robson (Modern Criticism, pp. 97-101) and other feminist critics draw on late-twentieth century studies of the role of women in the French Revolution to offer new perspectives on...the seamstress..." and Beth Harris writes that "the anonymous seamstress in "A Tale of Two Cities", who
A Tale of Two Cities republished the chapters as eight monthly sections in green covers. All but three of Dickens's previous novels had appeared only as monthly instalments. The first weekly instalment of "A Tale of Two Cities" ran in the first issue of "All the Year Round" on 30 April 1859. The last ran thirty weeks later, on 26 November. "A Tale of Two Cities" has been cited as one of the best-selling novels of all time. It has been stated to have sold 200 million copies since its first publication, though this figure has been dismissed as "pure fiction" by Oxford University's Peter