Comparing three texts - 'Tony Kytes, The Arch-Deceiver' by Thomas Hardy - 'Our Love Now' by Martyn Lowery and 'One Flesh' by Elizabeth Jennings.
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GCSE COURSEWORK - WIDE READING ASSIGNMENT By Gavin Tomlin In this essay, I will be comparing three texts: 'Tony Kytes, The Arch-Deceiver' by Thomas Hardy - 'Our Love Now' by Martyn Lowery and 'One Flesh' by Elizabeth Jennings. 'Tony Kytes the Arch- Deceiver' was written in the 1890's and was set in Dorset. Rural life then was very hard and marriage was extremely important for the woman in Britain because, they needed a husband to support them as it was very difficult to get a decent job that paid a sufficient wage for women in those days. The view I have from the story is that the women preferred a wealthy man with a stern look about them the ratio was three women to one man of this description. The tone of this story is very humorous knowing that there was two women hiding from one in the front seat of the wagon makes...

