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Jane Fairfax and Mrs. Bates

Jane Austen, Emma, 1815

Mrs. Smith and Nurse Rooke

Jane Austen, Persuasion, 1817

Mrs. Gummidge and Mrs. Peggotty

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849-1850

Miss Ophelia

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852

Brigitte and Madame Thuillier

Honoré de Balzac, Les Petits Bourgeois, 1855

Madame Thérèse Defarge

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859: Madame Defarge has been considered the "most famous and sinister knitter in literature". Having a character knitting while watching executions during the French Revolution is based on real reports.[1]: 181 

Anna Makarovna

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, 1869

Mrs. Elliot and Mrs. Thornbury

Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, 1915

Mrs. Ramsay

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, 1927[2]

Miss Marple

Agatha Christie, Various, 1927-1976[1]: 181 [3]

Miss Maud Silver

Patricia Wentworth,[3] Various, 1928-1961

Hilda Hopkins

Vivienne Fagan, Hilda Hopkins, Murder She Knit, 2011

References

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  1. ^ a b Hood, Ann (2013). Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting. W. W. Norton. ISBN 9780393239492.
  2. ^ Okumura, S. (2008). Women Knitting: Domestic Activity, Writing, and Distance in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction. English Studies, 89 (2), 166–181. https://doi.org/10.1080/00138380701770944
  3. ^ a b Rees, Kathy. "Worsted, weave, and web: the cultural struggles of the fictional knitting-woman." E-rea. Revue électronique d’études sur le monde anglophone 16.1 (2018). https://doi.org/10.4000/erea.6845
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