Girl sleuth, Nancy Drew and the women who created her, Melanie Rehak
Type
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Girl sleuth, Nancy Drew and the women who created her, Melanie Rehak
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Girl sleuth
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Melanie Rehak
Series statement
A Harvest book
Sub title
Nancy Drew and the women who created her
Summary
An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year The plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930-and 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) to enter the pantheon of American culture. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers' lives. Here, in a narrative with all the page-turning pace of Nancy's adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to icon?
Target audience
adult
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Creator
Subject
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Young adult fiction, American + History and criticism
- American fiction + Women authors + History and criticism
- Electronic books
- Teenage girls in literature
- Detective and mystery stories, American + History and criticism
- Drew, Nancy, (Fictitious character)
- Wirt, Mildred A., Mildred Augustine, 1905-2002 -- Characters -- Nancy Drew
- Stratemeyer Syndicate
- Young adult fiction + Publishing -- United States
- Girls + Books and reading -- United States
- Keene, Carolyn -- Characters -- Nancy Drew
- Adams, Harriet Stratemeyer -- Characters -- Nancy Drew
Content
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- Classification1
- Contributor1
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- Subject13
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Young adult fiction, American + History and criticism
- American fiction + Women authors + History and criticism
- Electronic books
- Teenage girls in literature
- Detective and mystery stories, American + History and criticism
- Drew, Nancy, (Fictitious character)
- Wirt, Mildred A., Mildred Augustine, 1905-2002 -- Characters -- Nancy Drew
- Stratemeyer Syndicate
- Young adult fiction + Publishing -- United States
- Girls + Books and reading -- United States
- Keene, Carolyn -- Characters -- Nancy Drew
- Adams, Harriet Stratemeyer -- Characters -- Nancy Drew
- Content1