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
A Tale of Two Cities to the hero, Bane's catchphrase "the fire rises" as an ode to one of the book's chapters, among others. Bane's associate Barsard is named after a supporting character in the novel. Season 6, episode 10 of the AMC television series "Mad Men" is titled "A Tale of Two Cities". The episode features Don Draper and Roger Sterling flying out to Los Angeles, California for business in the late 1960s. The episode shows the stark differences between liberal Los Angeles and more conservative New York City. In the novel, London is seen to be in a time of relative calm while