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Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her
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In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightful owner. Tied up by the villains, she mana...
In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightful owner. Tied up by the villains, she managed to free herself and bring them to justice - all while wearing a pencil skirt and high heels. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers), and emerged as beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers. Now, in a narrative with all the fast-paced thrill of one of Nancy's adventures, Melanie Rehak solves a page-turning literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to American icon?
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- Creator
- Melanie Rehak
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- Language
- English
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- First Harvest edition
- Orlando : Harcourt, 2006
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 015603056X, 9780156030564
- OCLC
- ocm70961059
- "A Harvest book."
- Originally published: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-354) and index.
- The Stratemeyer clan -- Mildred -- Alma Mater -- Hawkeye days -- Nell Cody, Helen Hale, Diana Dare -- Nancy Drew Land -- Syndicate for sale -- An unfortunate break; or, the Cleveland writer comes into her own -- Motherhood and Nancy Drew -- "They are Nancy" -- The kids are hep -- Nancy in the age of Aquarius -- Becoming the girl detective -- Will the real Carolyn Keene please stand up?
Subjects
- Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine), 1905-2002 -- Characters -- Nancy Drew.
- Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism.
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Young adult fiction, American -- History and criticism.
- Adams, Harriet Stratemeyer -- Characters -- Nancy Drew.
- Young adult fiction -- Publishing -- United States.
- Girls -- Books and reading -- United States.
- Keene, Carolyn -- Characters -- Nancy Drew.
- Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character)
- Teenage girls in literature.
- Stratemeyer Syndicate.