 Examples from 19th century novels include Madame Thérèse Defarge in Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities", Anna Makarovna in Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace", various characters in Jane Austen's novels and Miss Ophelia in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin".Several characters in Virginia Wolff's novels are knitters.In the first decade of the 21st century, knitting has been a key element in several novels and even murder mysteries.