Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
by Rehak, Melanie
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- CollectibleVeryGood
- ISBN 10
- 0151010412
- ISBN 13
- 9780151010417
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Aplucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. 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 girlhood. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers' lives. Now, in a narrative with all the vivid energy and 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? The brainchild of children's book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy was brought to life by two women: Mildred Wirt Benson, a pioneering journalist from Iowa, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a well-bred wife and mother who took over as CEO after her father died. In a century-spanning story Rehak traces their roles-and Nancy's-in forging the modern American woman. With ebullience, wit, and a wealth of little-known source material, Rehak celebrates our unstoppable girl detective.
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- 1M5000006T4Z_ns
- Title
- Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
- Author
- Rehak, Melanie
- Book Condition
- Used - CollectibleVeryGood
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151010412
- ISBN 13
- 9780151010417
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 2005-09-12
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