Gender-agnostic precursors to the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys novels, the Bobbsey Twins series focused on the impossibly-charmed life of the all-American Bobbsey family and appealed even to children growing up in a very different culture
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Bird Library’s “The Girl Sleuth'' aims to have viewers look at old objects in a new light. The display includes books about girl detectives and is exhibited alongside AI-generated posters.
Nancy Drew at 90: How the girl sleuth became an unintentional feminist
Ninety years after the first Nancy Drew books were published, the girl sleuth is as popular as ever. We take a look at how Nancy Drew came to be and how she became an unintended feminist role model for generations of women.
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The first book in the Nancy Drew series, The Secret of the Old Clock, was published in April 1930.(Penguin Random House)