The Secret of the Old Clock
The first Nancy Drew mystery, and the reason a generation of girls expected to solve things themselves.
Nancy Drew, eighteen and unsupervised, hears that a dead man’s fortune may have gone to the wrong relatives and sets out to find the will herself. Published in 1930 under the Carolyn Keene house name and written by Mildred Wirt Benson, it introduced a heroine who drove her own car, asked her own questions and required rescuing by nobody. Generations of women have since named her as the first character who suggested that was allowed.
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Fannie Flagg
The boys were the ones who seemed to have all the fun and adventures in the books that were offered. But when I was in the sixth grade, our teacher assigned us a Nancy Drew book. Nancy was just the character I needed to read about! She taught me that girls could do the same things as boys.
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