Girls Growing Up: Reading ‘Erotic Bloods’ in Interwar Britain

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In this chapter, I examine the periodical reading practices of working-class girls and young women in Britain in the interwar period, paying particular attention to ‘erotic bloods’ or ‘blood-and-thunder magazines’, the periodical genre most associated with this readership. I begin by situating the reading practices of working-class girls and young women in the nineteenth century, addressing middle-class concerns regarding working-class reading habits that began with the illustrated story paper and the novelette and continued into the penny papers marketed to (and incorporating fiction featuring) business girls, mill-girls, and other working girls.