Dr. Tony Williams's Gresham College lecture on A Tale of Two Cities

• Despite Paris and London, there was a third city, Mamchestor.
• Concieved the idea while acting in a frozen deep.
• Each of Dickens' novels are portraying his life in a certain way.
• He lived in London because his father worked there. (His father later went to prison from his actions)
• He got the overall idea of the story from his experinces of his every day life there.
• Saw many different and unusual things in London, which resulted in him writing this story.
• He knew everything about London and Paris.
• He referenced London as a newspaper, everything is there, but nothing is connected.