College lecture notes: Dr. Tony William

• Wrote a play shown in Manchester; (The Frozen Deep).
• Sydney Carlton was talented.
• Sacrificed himself for love so the woman who he loved could live with her husband.
• Dickens said he likes Carlton and would have called him Richard/Dick as parallelism from a character in The Frozen Deep.
• In 1858, Dickens began a series of public readings for profit. Became a greatest reader/writer of the age. Went on tours.
• In 1858, Dickens separated from his wife.
• April 30, 1859- A Tale of Two Cities was published in installments.
• Takes place in London and Paris. Dickens had to move to London when his father moved there for work and had deprivation and suffering in these years. These experiences gave him an extensive and peculiar knowledge of the city. 
• London was his inspiration and when he was away found it more difficult. Was a city of extremes in wealth and poverty and a labyrinth, developed a darkening image of the city in later age.
• Visited Paris for the first time in 1844 on the way to Italy. Was the most extraordinary place in the world to Dickens, felt like he couldn't conceive any other place so wonderfully expressive of its character. 
• Paris was about half the size of London
• Dickens visited Paris at least 15 times between 1844 and 1868. Rented apartments; public readings for charity, spanned a period of political change.