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Knitting has appeared in literature since at least the 1700s, and a dedicated subgenre called Knit Lit emerged in the 1990s. Knitting is equally well-established in a murder mystery subgenre. Among the best-known are the sinister Madame Defarge in Charles Dickens' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities, and the two fateful knitters in Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness, who may recall the fates of classical mythology. Authors have employed knitting for multiple other themes, including Virginia Woolf's use of it as a metaphor for writing. Knitting has been seen as overwhelmingly a woman's activity, enabling the creation of comic male knitters like J. K. Rowling's Albus Dumbledore.