These juicy stories were a guilty pleasure, and female characters often represented the women of their time: they were either dames or virgins, forced to fulfill the perfect role of housewife-mother, and punished for being sexual or daring. Because pulps were often seen as inferior literature, they weren’t really censored, so stories often addressed what at the time were deviant topics like murder and sex. Pulps often sport colourful covers worthy of framing, and genres included everything from sci-fi to superheroes. At their peak, they could sell up to a million copies. ‘Pulp’ was the cheap wood pulp paper they were printed on, and stories were usually sensational, lurid, or lowbrow. Before there were paperbacks, pulp fiction were the primary source of reading material for the working classes in the USA from the 1900s to the 1960s.
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