 Doris Y. Kadish describes the seamstress as "a humble heroine of the revolution," while "Lisa Robson (Modern Criticism, pp.97-101) and other feminist critics draw on late-twentieth century studies of the role of women in the French Revolution to offer new perspectives on...the seamstress..." and Beth Harris writes that "the anonymous seamstress in "A Tale of Two Cities", who has 'done nothing,' re-establishes a narrative horizon that charts its length along the great actions of men..."

In the 1911 film version, Norma Talmadge played the seamstress, although in this version Sidney Carton ascends the scaffold before her, and her death is not actually depicted.In the 1935 film version, the seamstress is played by Isabel Jewell.