Dickens Lecture Notes

• Tale of Two Cities was influenced by the show Dickens helped put on in 1857, "The Frozen Deep"
• His life also had influences: growing up on his own from the age of ten, his marriage that ended in a divorce, Ellen which he was falling in love with, and visiting Paris
• Two years later, the first three chapters of Tale of Two Cities was published in 1859
• From there new chapters were published weekly
• Much of the experiences of his life and the historical times were included in the novel
• Considered one of the greatest writers ever