Girl sleuth
Nancy Drew and the women who created her
by Melanie Rehak
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In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties, and emerged as beloved by girls today as by their grandmothers. Rehak tells the behind-the-scenes history of Nancy and her groundbreaking creators. Both Nancy and her "author," Carolyn Keene, were invented by Edward Stratemeyer, who also created the Bobbsey Twins and the Hardy Boys. But Nancy Drew was brought to life by two remarkable women: original author Mildred Wirt Benson, a convention-flouting Midwestern journalist, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a wife and mother who ran her father's company after he died. Together, Benson and Adams created a character that has inspired generations of girls to be as strong-willed and as bold as they were.--From publisher description.
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Stratemeyer Syndicate, Young adult fiction, Characters, History and criticism, Girls, American Young adult fiction, Books and reading, Nancy Drew (Fictitious character), American Detective and mystery stories, Women authors, Nancy Drew, Women and literature, Publishing, American fiction, Teenage girls in literature, History, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, American fiction, women authors, American fiction, history and criticism, Youth in literature, Girls in literature, Nancy Drew (Fictional character), Mystery fiction, Teenagers in literature, Young adult literature, history and criticismPlaces
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
2006, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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Girl sleuth: Nancy Drew and the women who created her
2006, Thorndike Press
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2006, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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2005, Harcourt
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Orlando : Harcourt, c2005.
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