The third part of 'Pulp Fiction' anthology 'Dames'is now
published here. Must admit I find it a fascinating collection
as it includes few stories by the usual suspects, but instead
by names lesser known and pretty anonymous. It has also made
me wonder about women as writers for the pulps. Most
anthologies of pulp stories nake the world of the pulp writer
to be a male preserve. But were there women writers, perhaps
hidden in the plethora of anonymous names and probable
pseudonyms. I have read that crime writer Phoebe Aywood
Taylor wrote many pulp crime stories under other names, but
have yet to find any evidence of this. There is also one
Virginia S. Sanderson (head of the theatre department, San
Jose University in the 1930s) who wrote stories for the pulps
'always under another name'. Again no evidence to support the
claim. Does anyone know anything of these ladies, or any
other?
At the same time, does anyone know anything about the pulp
stories of spiritual author/philosopher Paul Twitchell? A
website about him says that at one he wrote mysteries and
westerns for the pulps, but gives no evidence of anything he
wrote.
John
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