Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her / Melanie Rehak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rehak, Melanie.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine), 1905-2002--Characters--Nancy Drew.

Wirt, Mildred A.

Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine), 1905-2002.

Keene, Carolyn.

Adams, Harriet Stratemeyer.

Nancy Drew mystery stories (Keene, Carolyn).

Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories, American.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Young adult fiction--Publishing.

Young adult fiction.

United States.

History.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--Women authors.

Young adult fiction, American--History and criticism.

Young adult fiction, American.

Adams, Harriet Stratemeyer--Characters--Nancy Drew.

Young adult fiction--Publishing--United States.

Girls--Books and reading--United States.

Girls.

Girls--Books and reading.

Keene, Carolyn--Characters--Nancy Drew.

Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character).

Drew, Nancy.

Teenage girls in literature.

Stratemeyer Syndicate.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Orlando : Harcourt, [2005]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-354) and index.

ISBN:

0151010412

OCLC:

58830471

Publisher Number:

9780151010417