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The Payne Fund

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The Payne Study and Experiment Fund was started in 1927 by Frances Payne Bolton to support a study of the influence of pulp fiction on young women. Mrs. Bolton was a wealthy mother who was interested in education and started the fund because she was concerned about the media's influence on youth.