Peg's Paper

Peg's Paper was a weekly British women's magazine, published from 1919 to 1940 in about 1,100 issues. 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. It also had a regular feature of photostories of movie stars, as well as other features including fortune-telling and a letters page. Its advertising concentrated on looks. It was the parent paper of Peg's Companion, which launched in 1921 and had two fictional stories in each issue. 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.