She became acquainted with Charles Darnay during their imprisonments in La Force Prison, and was the only person to recognize Sydney Carton as an impostor as the two of them rode to their execution together.

[3] The seamstress is described as "a young woman, with a slight girlish form, a sweet spare face in which there was no vestige of color, and large widely opened patient eyes".

She remains calm as she describes that they have been separated by poverty and that her cousin will not know of her fate, but begins to tear up as she wonders if it will be a long wait before she sees her again in heaven.

Carton's last meaningful action in his life is to provide solace to the seamstress in her last moments, in which Dickens continues his theme of redemption in the novel.

Doris Y. Kadish describes the seamstress as "a humble heroine of the revolution,"[5] while "Lisa Robson (Modern Criticism, pp.