Peg's Paper

Peg's Paper was a weekly British women's magazine, published from 1919 to 1940 in about 1,100 issues.[1][2] It was one of the first women's magazines aimed at the working-class female reader, and mainly consisted of fictional romance across class lines.[3][1][4] It also had a regular feature of photostories of movie stars, as well as other features including fortune-telling and a letters page.[3] Its advertising concentrated on looks.[3] It was the parent paper of Peg's Companion, which launched in 1921 and had two fictional stories in each issue.[3] Richard Hoggart considered Peg's Paper an example of working-class art whose "overriding interest is in the close detail of the human condition", using it as an example of such in his book The Uses of Literacy.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Peg's Paper (Romance)". Comic Book Plus. 25 October 2012. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
  2. ↑ Hsu-Ming Teo (15 November 2012). Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels. University of Texas Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-292-73940-6.
  3. 1 2 3 4 David Lea (4 October 2003). Playing With Time: Mothers And. Routledge. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-135-35828-0.
  4. ↑ June Purvis (28 January 2008). Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945: An Introduction. Routledge. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-135-36710-7.
  5. ↑ Gary Day (2001). Class. Psychology Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-415-18222-5.
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