Tale of Two Cities Lecture Notes

• Dicken's friend wrote a play called "The Frozen's Deep", similar to "Tale of Two Cities"
• Lucy, in the novel is meant to resemble the woman he left his wife for (Ellen)
• Many of his characters have his initials...or have them backwards "CD" or "DC'
• The novel revolves between France and England
• There were fears in 19th century Britain that there could be a revolution there, Dickens wrote about revolution to warn his modern society
• The novel was initially published by parts. The first three chapters were published first
• Came up with story while acting
• Dickens was very interested in Paris