Yep - fiction wasn't what books were for. Books were for men to exchange serious knowledge. Start of the 19th century we had Austen knocking out chick lit, Shel

Yep - fiction wasn't what books were for. Books were for men to exchange serious knowledge. Start of the 19th century we had Austen knocking out chick lit, Shelley on a Euro-bender knocking out horror, then Dickens serialized gubbins selling pamphlets on the street etc etc