... Revolution: A History (Davis 247). At Carton's execution there were a number of women knitting, this is also what happened at the executions during the revolution. "In front of it, seated in chairs, as in a garden of public diversion, are a number of women, busily knitting" (Dickens 401). Jacobin women were well known at the guillotine, they would knit while observing the executions. (Davis ... ...

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