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Charles Dickens: The Key to Character: A Tale of Two Cities: Love, Sex, Imprisonment
October 17, 2012
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Carolyn Williams, Rutgers University, considers how Dickens’s fascination with prisons—and with his mistress Ellen Ternan—informed his writing of A Tale of Two Cities.

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