Charles Dickens had been known to use the establishment frequently, and it is alluded to in his "A Tale of Two Cities": following Charles Darnay’s acquittal on charges of high treason, Sydney Carton invites him to dine, "drawing his arm through his own" Carton leads him to Fleet Street "up a covered way, into a tavern … where Charles Darnay was soon recruiting his strength with a good plain dinner and good wine". R.L. Stevenson mentions the Cheese in "The Dynamiter" (1885), 'a select society at the Cheshire Cheese engaged my evenings.' "A Tale of Two Cities" was in part the inspiration for the American children's book "The Cheshire Cheese Cat" by Carmen Agra Deedy, Randall Wright and Barry Moser, which is set in the pub.