Anthology Presentation – The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy In the earlier part of the nineteenth century and beyond it is apparent that the Leavis claimed that mass audiences ultimately equalled mass stupidity. As new literacy trends have developed it has become apparent that this particular ideology has died in history. A literacy revolution happened in the latter half of the nineteenth century which helped shape the way literature is written today. It can be argued that there is nothing morally or intellectually incorrect with reading popular fiction just like The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy that a reader can enjoy and relate to. Although The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy and the majority of the Chick lit genre does not draw deep conclusions about the future of humanity or shows no moral message the argument is that the Chick lit genre is not supposed to provide the reader with this intention. It appears that in today’s modern world changing attitudes have shown that the reader is less concerned with the Leavisites ideologies of a novel. Many twenty-first century readers simply feel that it is enough that the novel can make you laugh aloud or cheer you up after a grim day. The days where a novels intention was to provide a moral message are long dead. We must now learn to welcome and celebrate new changing literacy trends such as Chick lit instead of clinging onto old tradition literacy novels. Bibliography Docker. J (1994) _Postmodernism and Popular _Culture: Cambridge university press Storey. J (1993) An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: Biddles Ltd, King’s Lynn