Literary Friction - Deception with Yiyun Li
Literary Friction
How to Write a Novel - Mrs Townsend
A lot of my English readers they all seem to have an experience of a Mrs. Townsend clearly she is a quintessential you know English character British character right yeah she's an archetype for sure I know I know so yes and I think in a way I you know back to the original story it's a literary hoax anytime a literary deception literary hoax happens it's because some people want to gain something out of it and Mrs. Townsend along with the parishion editors and publishers are exploiting these young girls. SoMrs. Townsend is a very concrete example that I also like that actually Agnes is also exploiting Mrs. Townsend so I think it's it's always interesting to see who or as a novelist
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