General
- Evil Intentions are the Evil Person's Own Undoing
- "The French Revolution in the Popular Imagination: A Tale of Two Cities"
- Allusion in A Tale of Two Cities and Wilkie Collins's No Name
- Terrible Secret from the Past Blights the Present (a motif shared with "The Haunted Man")
- Carlyle's Influence upon A Tale of Two Cities
- Influence of Bulwer-Lytton
- Sydney Carton's Death and the Victorian Debate about Suicide
- A Tale of Two Cities (1859): A Model of the Integration of History and Literature
- Fox Cooper's 1860 Dramatic Adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens and His Illustrators
- Phiz's Sixteen Monthly Illustrations
- Etching, Wood-egraving, or Lithography in Phiz's Illustration for A Tale of Two Cities?
- Illustrations by Fred Barnard
- A Discussion of Phiz's June 1859 Plates for Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities
- A Tale of Two Cities (1859) — the last Dickens novel Phiz illustrated
- A Note on Phiz's Wrapper Design for Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities in Monthly Serialisation in
- John McLenan's illustrations for Harpers's Weekly (1859)
- A. A. Dixon's 1905 illustrations
Study Materials
Bibliography
Allingham, Philip V. "'Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Illustrated: A Critical Reassessment of Hablot Knight Browne's Accompanying Plates." Dickens Studies. 33 (2003): 109-158.
Bolton, H. Philip. "A Tale of Two Cities." Dickens Dramatized. Boston, Massachusetts: G. K. Hall, 1987. pp. 395-412. [136 adaptations]
Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities” and the French Revolution. Ed. Colin Jones, Josephine McDonagh, and Jon Mee. Palgrave US, 2009. xi + 212 pp. [Review by Laurence Davies]
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). London: Chapman and Hall, November 1859.
Sanders, Andrew. "Introduction" to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Woodcock, George. "Introduction" to Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.
Created 23 October 2005 Last modified 5 December 2025