-got the idea for the story when he was acting
-everything in the book he has suffered himself
-Helped Collins with a play "The Frozen Deep" 1857 and played Richard Water the hero of the play
-public performance should be done by perfessionals
-Lucie in The Tale of Two Stories was influenced by a girl he met, Ellen Yurnn, who he left his wife for
-1857 did public reading for profit instead of charity to start his career and established a new relationship with reader= greatest reader of greatest writer
-1858 separated from wife Catherine
-Main cities are London ad Paris
-he was brought to London as a 10 year old boy and the suffering was in the novel all the sights that haunted him
-the experiences gave him an experience of the city and he knew it all
-place of darkness but also fascination
-London is newspaper= everything there but all disconnected
- first visited Paris in 1844 and revisited it 15 times from 1844-1868
-two worlds of London and Paris are alike in many ways
-1860 first time book made into play
-he builds emotions and uses a lot of descripion for us
-people are mysterious to other people
-novel itself is warning about revolution
-armed in hunger and revenge
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