There was some litigation and relatively poor planning on Harriet's part - she took too much credit for work her sister and Mildred had done - but that was trivial compared to the remarkably sustaining work of these two women over the course of 50+ years.Okay so i know it’s controversial and i already looked through the backlog of the posts on this sub tagged with ransom and i have read several articles about the game, so i know what i’m getting myself into, but some of the info is not up to date in terms of finding the game to play.
Mildred, one of the ghostwriters, fleshed out the character and was an amazingly prolific and well-rounded person she became a legendary journalist and pilot. Harriet, his daughter, took over as editor and CEO of his company. In 1929 he decided to create a girl detective, but died in 1930 before Nancy Drew could take off.
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He employed a number of ghost writers to churn out several best-selling series for boys - among them, The Rover Boys and eventually, The Hardy Boys. Harriet was the heir to an interesting scheme of her father's. Reading the book will give you an appreciation for how these two women were not only ahead of their time, but stood up as independent women in an age where there was little place for them. When I finished this book, I ruminated on its meaning, and I finally figured out that it told of two remarkably able women, neither of whom really knew the other, who managed to give birth to and nurture one of the key children's characters of our time. Material from the Toledo Blade and the Toledo Times reprinted by permission of the Toledo Blade.
Material from the Wellesley College Archives reprinted courtesy of the Wellesley College Archives, Margaret Clapp Library, Wellesley, MA. Material from Stratemeyer Syndicate Records reprinted courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library, Yale University. Material from the Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson Papers reprinted by permission of the Iowa Women’s Archives, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City. Adams are and registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. NANCY DREW MYSTERY SERIES NANCY DREW and all related characters and images from the frontispieces of The Clue in the Diary, Mystery at the Moss Covered Mansion, and Mystery at the Ski Jump, the 1973, 1969, 1946 book covers from The Mystery of the Tolling Bell, and photograph of Harriet S. The mystery of Carolyn Keene is about to begin.” - Karen Joy Fowlerīrilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. “Sheds light on perhaps the most successful writing franchise of all time and also the cultural and historic changes through which it passed. Those who followed the many adventures of Nancy Drew and her friends will be fascinated with the behind-the-scenes stories of just who Carolyn Keene really was.” - School Library Journal “As much a social history of the times as a book about the popular series. “It’s truly fun to see behind the scenes of the girl sleuth’s creation.” - Publishers Weekly In this century-spanning, “absorbing and delightful” story, the author traces their roles - and Nancy’s - in forging the modern American woman ( The Wall Street Journal). 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 her father’s business empire as CEO. 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?
As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers’ lives.
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. The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is “a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing” ( The Seattle Times ).Īn Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
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