This project sought to explore the connection between mid 19th century novels by Gaskell and Dickens, whose works are noted for their focus on the working class, and the works published in Europe around the labor movements. To do this, topic modeling via the BERTopic package for Python was used to create static and dynamic topic models, allowing for the tracking of topics and terms overtime. Through this process, the connection between Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities and Thomas Carlyle’s French Revolution: A History, as the they share the same topic, and the popularity of that topic can be traced to the publication of each of these works. Additionally, Gaskell’s works include topics relating to factories, workers, and various professions. These topics are also seen to spike and change around the publication of works on the subject, likely Condition of the Working Class in England, and various articles published around 1848. What was not discovered was a link to the novels via topics including French socialist terms like bourgeois, proletariat, or even socialism. Terms like worker, laborer, aristocrat, were favored in the novels, as well as by Carlyle, the british scholar. Determining the influence of the political publications on the novels using solely topic modeling proved to be difficult, however, a combination of dynamic topic modeling and sentiment analysis could be make for more complete picture of this influence. This topic should be further analyzed through these means as this time period and these publications are full of information and the scope of their influence is yet to be fully understood.