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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
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Melanie Rehak has written a fascinating history of Nancy Drew, the preternaturally competent girl sleuth whose series of mysteries was one of some two dozen published by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The Syndicate's books, including the Hardy Boys mysteries, were the product of collaboration between Edward Stratemeyer, who created the Syndicate in 1905, and his stable of ghostwriters. Stratemeyer created Nancy Drew in 1929 and assigned the job of writing the books to Mildred Wirt, the first of two strong-willed women who would be inextricably linked with the girl detective. After Stratemeyer's death in 1930 the Syndicate was run by his daughter, Harriet. Much of Rehak's book is focused on the contentious relationship between Harriet and Mildred: the Syndicate was jealous of its properties, and Harriet was a fierce guardian of the secrets behind the books' authorship. The uneasy relationship between the two women makes Rehak's book that much more compelling.
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ISBN:
9780156030564
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
09/05/2006
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Language:
English
Pages:
384
Height:
.99IN
Width:
5.41IN
Age Range:
14 and up
Grade Range:
9 and up
Number of Units:
1
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Yes
Copyright Year:
2006
Author:
Melanie Rehak
Subject:
American fiction
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Children s Young Adult-Biography
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Children's 12-Up - Biography / Autobiography
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Drew, nancy (fictitious character)
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Women and literature
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