List of knitters in literature

Jane Fairfax and Mrs. Bates

Jane Austen, Emma, 1815

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Mrs. Smith and Nurse Rooke

Jane Austen, Persuasion, 1817

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Mrs. Gummidge and Mrs. Peggotty

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1849-1850

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Miss Ophelia

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852

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Brigitte and Madame Thuillier

Honoré de Balzac, Les Petits Bourgeois, 1855

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Madame Thérèse Defarge

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859

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Anna Makarovna

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, 1869

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Mrs. Elliot and Mrs. Thornbury

Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, 1915

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Mrs. Ramsay

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, 1927

Miss Marple

Agatha Christie, Various, 1927-1976

Miss Maud Silver

Patricia Wentworth, Various, 1928-1961

Hilda Hopkins

Vivienne Fagan, Hilda Hopkins, Murder She Knit, 2011

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