The Resource Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her, Melanie Rehak
Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her, Melanie Rehak
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The item Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her, Melanie Rehak represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xviii, 364 p., [8] p. of plates
- Contents
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- 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?
- Isbn
- 9780151010417
- Label
- Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her
- Title
- Girl sleuth
- Title remainder
- Nancy Drew and the women who created her
- Statement of responsibility
- Melanie Rehak
- Subject
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- American fiction -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
- Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character)
- Girls -- Books and reading -- United States
- Keene, Carolyn -- Characters | Nancy Drew
- Adams, Harriet Stratemeyer -- Characters | Nancy Drew
- Teenage girls in literature
- Wirt, Mildred A., (Mildred Augustine), 1905- -- Characters | Nancy Drew
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Young adult fiction -- Publishing -- United States
- Young adult fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Stratemeyer Syndicate
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rehak, Melanie
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wirt, Mildred A.
- Adams, Harriet Stratemeyer
- Keene, Carolyn
- Stratemeyer Syndicate
- Detective and mystery stories, American
- Women and literature
- American fiction
- Young adult fiction, American
- Young adult fiction
- Girls
- Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character)
- Teenage girls in literature
- Label
- Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her, Melanie Rehak
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-354) and index
- 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?
- Control code
- ocm58830471
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xviii, 364 p., [8] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780151010417
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2005009129
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her, Melanie Rehak
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-354) and index
- 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?
- Control code
- ocm58830471
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xviii, 364 p., [8] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780151010417
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2005009129
- Other physical details
- ill.
Subject
- American fiction -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Detective and mystery stories, American -- History and criticism
- Drew, Nancy (Fictitious character)
- Girls -- Books and reading -- United States
- Keene, Carolyn -- Characters | Nancy Drew
- Adams, Harriet Stratemeyer -- Characters | Nancy Drew
- Teenage girls in literature
- Wirt, Mildred A., (Mildred Augustine), 1905- -- Characters | Nancy Drew
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Young adult fiction -- Publishing -- United States
- Young adult fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Stratemeyer Syndicate
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