“Lack of knowledge”: “Results of the Suffrage Vote,” Wellesley College News, February 15, 1911, WCA.
“But by 1912”: Balderston, p. 412.
“White buckskin golf shoes”: Alice Payne Hackett, Wellesley: Part of the American Story (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1949), pp. 192–93 (hereafter cited as Hackett).
“Can you dance the Boston”: “Modern Dancing,” Wellesley College News, November 27, 1913, WCA.
“Be alive, be awake”: “Editorial,” Wellesley College News, October 5, 1910, WCA.
“They were not allowed to go”:Official Circular of Information: For the Use of Students, 1910–1911 (Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, 1910), WCA.
“The precincts of any men’s”:Official Circular of Information: For the Use of Students, 1911–1912 (Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, 1911), p. 7, WCA.
“Standing about”:Student’s Handbook, presented by the Christian Association, 1910–1911 (Wellesley, MA: Wellesley Christian Association, 1910), p. 51, WCA (hereafter cited as Student’s Handbook).
“An activity referred to”:Student’s Handbook, p. 196.
“To Boston, where”:Student’s Handbook, pp. 193–96.
“One day to Boston I did go”: “On the Sights of Boston,” Wellesley College News, December 18, 1913, WCA.
“The department of Hygiene”:Wellesley College Annual Reports, President and Treasurer, 1910 (Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, 1910), p. 9, WCA.
“If one strips each of the great religions”: Harriet Adams, notes for luncheon speech delivered at the Wellesley Club, May 10, 1973, SSP/Beinecke, box 8.
“An average student”: Sidney Fields, “What Ever Happened to . . .?” New York Daily News, April 4, 1968.
“In any non-military country”: “The Fifth Woman-Suffrage State,” Wellesley College News, November 30, 1910, WCA.
“Let us . . . be glad for them”: “Suffragists!” Wellesley College News, March 29, 1912, WCA.
“Are you a suffragette”: Edna Stratemeyer to Harriet Stratemeyer, n.d. (spring 1913), private collection of Cynthia Adams Lum.
“Scheduled to arrive”: Much of the information in this section comes from Sheridan Harvey, “Marching for the Vote: Remembering the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913,” adapted from American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2001) (hereafter cited as Harvey).
“Next Wednesday morning”: Edna Stratemeyer to Harriet Stratemeyer, n.d., private collection of Cynthia Adams Lum.
“Those ideals toward which”: Official program of the Woman March for Suffrage, pp. 14, 16, cited in Harvey.
“Suffragists are”: Nellie Bly, “Suffragists Are Men’s Superiors,” New York Evening Journal, March 3, 1913, cited in Harvey.
“Where are your skirts”: Harvey.
“There would be nothing like this”: Harvey.
“As for Wilson”: Officers of the National Woman Suffrage Association to the Honorable Woodrow Wilson, February 12, 1913, National Woman’s Party Records, Group I, box 2, cited in Harvey.
“As it was at all”: “The Wellesley College Press Board,” Wellesley College News, April 17, 1913, WCA (hereafter cited as “Press Board”).
“The disconnected work”: “Press Board.”
“Wellesley girl who ran”: “Press Board.”
“When her first payment”: Adams Lum.
“At that time Wellesley”: The whole anecdote about the photographers is taken from Harriet Adams, notes for luncheon speech delivered at the Wellesley Club, May 10, 1973, SSP/Beinecke, box 8.
“Don’t kiss each other”: “New List of Don’ts for Wellesley Girls,” Boston World, n.d., scrapbook of Helene Fischer/Class of 1914 Collection, WCA.
“On Sundays”:Official Circular of Information, 1912–1913 (Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, 1912), WCA.
“Tomorrow night is the Glee Club Concert”: Mary Rosa to her mother, February 6, 1913, Mary Rosa Papers, Correspondence 1912–1913/Class of 1914 Collection, WCA.
“Preventive of the ‘turkey trot’”: “Wellesley Girls Decree That All Dancers Must Keep 3 Inches Apart,” New York Herald, n.d., Clippings on Wellesley, 1890–1919, WCA.
“Young men who call on”: “Beaux Must Go to Church,” Boston World, n.d., scrap-book of Helene Fischer/Class of 1914 Collection, WCA.
“In the earliest hours”: Much of the account of the Wellesley fire of 1914 comes from Hackett, pp. 167–81.
“What few words can picture”: Hackett, p. 169.
“Miss Harriet Stratemeyer”:Newark Evening News, March 18, 1914.
“No one thought of Self”:Wellesley College Bulletin Annual Reports, President and Treasurer 1913–1914 (Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, 1915), p. 16, WCA.
“One cheery soul”: Adams Lum.
“Attired in costumes”: “Tells of Dash from Wellesley Flames,” New York Herald, March 17, 1914.
“This heroine”: “Girls Flee $1,500,000 Wellesley Fire,” Boston Traveler and Evening Herald, March 17, 1914, College Hall Fire Collection, WCA.
“Not one girl”: Adams Lum.
“Some style to Billie”: unknown to Harriet Stratemeyer, March 23, 1914, private collection of Cynthia Adams Lum.
“Edward gave”: Edward Stratemeyer to Dorothy Clark, April 3, 1914, SSR/NYPL, box 23.
“Whoever you inherited”: Magdalene Stratemeyer to Harriet Stratemeyer, May 15, 1914, private collection of Cynthia Adams Lum.
“Commencement week”:Wellesley College Bulletin Annual Reports, Dean, 1913–1914 (Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College, 1915), p. 22, WCA.
“I am just back from Wellesley”: Edward Stratemeyer to F. S. Grow, June 22, 1914, SSR/NYPL, box 23.
“Everything in Newark is War”: Edward Stratemeyer to Will Vroom, August 7, 1914, SSR/NYPL, box 23.
“He felt that as long as”:Secret of Nancy Drew.
“Instead, written at the top”:Secret of Nancy Drew.
“On another”: Sandy Rovner, “Growing Up with Sensible Nancy,” Washington Post, March 30, 1982.
“On the 20th, my older daughter”: Edward Stratemeyer to St. George Rathbone, October 11, 1915, SSR/NYPL, box 23.
“An elaborate dress”: “Adams-Stratemeyer,” unnamed newspaper clipping, October 20, 1915, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams Collection, WCA.
CHAPTER FOUR: HAWKEYE DAYS
“Frosh Women”: All headlines from the Daily Iowan, fall 1922, memory book of Mildred Augustine, 1922—1928, MAWB/IWA, box 2.
“Perhaps the most prominent”:Hawkeye, 1924, University Archives, University of Iowa, p. 259 (hereafter cited as UA/UI).
“The feature event”: “Hawkeye Swimmers Give Exhibitions at the Big Dipper,” Daily Iowan, n.d., memory book of Mildred Augustine, 1922—1928, MAWB/IWA, box 2.
“Swimsuits themselves/Ederle”: Collins, pp. 345—46.
“The University of Iowa”: Much of the information about U of I in this chapter comes from the University of Iowa Handbook, vol. XXXIII, 1922—1923, UA/UI.
“Above all in the 1920s”: Deutsch, p. 413.
“Women who were daring”: Collins, p. 300.
“At one point during the fighting”: Manners Smith, pp. 406—7.
“In New York, where many women”: Deutsch, pp. 416—17.
“Margaret Sanger”: Manners Smith, pp. 402—3.
“What was the point”: Collins, p. 312.
“I always voted”: Vallongo.
“Popular magazines”: Deutsch, pp. 419—20.
“Modern new Currier Hall”: Florence Livingston Joy, “In and Around and About Currier Hall,” Iowa Alumnus XI, no. 6 (March 1914), pp. 10–12, UA/UI.
“Today’s woman gets what she wants”: Collins, p. 335.
“I see in your books”: Edward Stratemeyer to Howard Garis, April 17, 1919, SSR/NYPL, box 24.
“The president of Mount Holyoke College”: “Young People Less Superficial Than Twenty Years Ago,” n.d., Daily Iowan, memory book of
Helen Andrews Brown, Helen Andrews Brown Papers, 1924–1927, IWA, box 1.
“The National Woman’s Party”: Deutsch, p. 422.
“In a Harper’s Magazine article”: Deutsch, p. 424.
“An impudent”: Vallongo.
“Hawkeyes Beat Yale”: This and all other Daily Iowan quotes in this section are from the memory book of Mildred Augustine, 1922–1928, MAWB/IWA, box 2.
“Athena Literary Society”: Mildred Chant, “History of the Literary Societies of the State University of Iowa” (Ph.D diss., University of Iowa, 1944), p. 144, UA/UI.
“I always had one or two”: Vallongo.
“Among the offerings”: State University of Iowa News Letter 3, no. 57 (December 19, 1918), p. 2, UA/UI.
“We Never Sleep”:Iowa Journalist, February 1926, p. 16, UA/UI.
“The most gory”: Mildred Benson press conference, University of Iowa Nancy Drew Conference, Iowa City, IA, April 17, 1993.
“Our Sardines”: unsigned editorial, “Our Sardines,” n.d., Daily Iowan, MAWB/IWA, box 2.
“Faults in Expression”:Iowa Journalist, October 1925, p. 13, UA/UI.
“Advice to the Young Reporter”:Iowa Journalist, July 1925, pp. 10–11, UA/UI.
“‘Wanted—An Idea’”: Mildred Augustine, “Wanted—An Idea,” Youth’s Companion 20, no. 23 (June 9, 1923).
“I think you need”: Vallongo.
“Echoed the enormously”: Deutsch, pp. 435–36.
“I enjoin”: Arthur F. Allen, “On the Need of Being Exact,” Iowa Journalist, September 1925, p. 1, UA/UI.
“I came from the town of”: Mildred Benson press conference, University of Iowa Nancy Drew Conference, Iowa City, IA, April 17, 1993.
“The Stratemeyer Syndicate”: advertisement in the Editor, April 10, 1926, SSR/NYPL, box 15.
CHAPTER FIVE: NELL CODY, HELEN HALE, DIANA DARE
“I wish it understood”: Edward Stratemeyer to John Rhidabeck, April 19, 1914, SSR/NYPL, box 23.
“This is my machine”: All excerpts from the Motor Girls in this section come from Margaret Penrose, The Motor Girls; or, A Mystery of the Road (New York: Cupples & Leon, 1910).
“Forty-six new girls’ series”: Carol Billman, The Secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and the Million Dollar Fiction Factory (New York: Ungar, 1986), p. 57 (hereafter cited as Billman).
“Comes of my ignorance”: Edward Stratemeyer to Gabrielle Jackson, October 26, 1906, SSR/NYPL, box 20.
“Among other things, we want”: Edward Stratemeyer to Gabrielle Jackson, October 18, 1906, SSR/NYPL, box 20.
“Dorothy Dale”: Margaret Penrose, Dorothy Dale, a Girl of Today (New York: Cupples & Leon, 1908), p. 3.
“I have too much good sense”: Margaret Penrose, Dorothy Dale’s Engagement (New York: Cupples & Leon, 1917), p. 161.
“Must appeal to children”: Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, “Hint on Procedure for Writing Children’s Books,” n.d., Harriet Stratemeyer Adams file, Class of 1914 Collection, WCA.
“To get good books written for girls”: Edward Stratemeyer, advertising copy, n.d. (early 1900s), SSR/NYPL, box 329.
“I have never permitted a murder”: Edward Stratemeyer to Lillian Garis, November 7, 1911, SSR/NYPL, box 21.
“It is the Century of the Child”: Ernestine Evans, “Trends in Children’s Books,” New Republic, November 10, 1926.
“By 1927 nearly two-thirds”: Collins, p. 335.
“One middle-class woman”: Deutsch, p. 438.
“A large part of this”: For much of the information in this section, I am indebted to Paul Deane, Mirrors of American Culture: Children’s Fiction Series in the Twentieth Century (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991); and Cornelia Meigs et al., eds., A Critical History of Children’s Literature (New York: Macmillan, 1953).
“A well-known child psychologist”: G. Stanley Hall, “What Children Do Read and What They Ought to Read,” cited in Gwen Athene Tarbox, The Clubwomen’s Daughters: Collectivist Impulses in Progressive Era Girls’ Fiction, 1890–1940 (New York: Garland, 2000), p. 46 (hereafter cited as Tarbox).
“Much of the contempt for”: Walter Taylor Field, The Guide to Literature for Children, 1915 (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1928), cited in Tarbox, p. 46.
“127,000”: A Virtual Boy Scout Museum, www.boyscoutstuff.com.
“‘Blowing Out the Boys’ Brains’”: Franklin K. Mathiews, “Blowing Out the Boys’ Brains,” Outlook, November 16, 1914.
“Personally, it does not matter much to me”: Edward Stratemeyer to chairman, Book Committee, Newark Public Library, November 11, 1901, cited in Abel, p. 294.
“Maybe I’ll scare her into something”: Edward Stratemeyer to Magdalene Stratemeyer, May 16, 1921, cited in Abel, p. 295.
“Indeed, the following year”: Tarbox, p. 45.
“He has probably influenced”: Corey Ford, “The Father of the Rover Boys,” Reader’s Digest, May 1928, p. 58.
“Boys had paper routes”: David Nasaw, “Children and Commercial Culture,” in Small Worlds: Children and Adolescents in America, 1850–1950, ed. Elliott West and Paula Petrik (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992), p. 18.
“The names and Addresses”: “Best Books for Boys and Girls,” Cupples & Leon catalog, 1923, private collection of Geoffrey S. Lapin.
“Too busy shooting marbles/an insidious narcotic”: “For It Was Indeed He,” pp. 89, 193.
“No matter where you are”: Bobby Miles to Stratemeyer Syndicate, n.d., SSR/NYPL, box 56.
“If I had enough money”: Maurice Brasel to Stratemeyer Syndicate, March 29, 1933, SSR/NYPL, box 56.
“During adolescence”: Leslie McFarlane, Ghost of the Hardy Boys (New York: Methuen/Two Continents, 1976), p. 13 (hereafter cited as GHB).
“Write a mystery about”: unknown to Stratemeyer Syndicate, n.d., SSR/NYPL, box 56.
“You will perhaps be interested”: Edward Stratemeyer to Cupples & Leon, May 14, 1926, SSR/NYPL, box 26.
“Dear Sirs”: Mildred Augustine to Stratemeyer Syndicate, April 17, 1926, SSR/NYPL, box 14.
“I have looked over these stories”: Edward Stratemeyer to Mildred Augustine, May 10, 1926, SSR/NYPL, box 26.
“A bitter rival”: Edward Stratemeyer, advertising matter for Ruth Fielding and Her Great Scenario; or, Striving for the Motion Picture Prize, February 16, 1927, SSR/NYPL, box 258.
“Through all her”: All excerpts from Ruth Fielding and Her Great Scenario in this section come from Alice B. Emerson, Ruth Fielding and Her Great Scenario; or, Striving for the Motion Picture Prize (New York: Cupples & Leon, 1927).
“Many Americans had begun to fear”: This quote, plus much of the other information in this paragraph, comes from Deutsch, pp. 428, 435–36, 438, 453.
“What do the neighbors think”: Deutsch, p. 438.
“The number of women who never/Most college women”: Deutsch, p. 439.
“Vassar College”: Deutsch, p. 441.
“Can the devoted wife and mother”:Ladies’ Home Journal, March 1929, p. 247.
“What had looked”: Deutsch, pp. 441, 447.
“Fought her on”: Mildred Wirt Benson, “The Ghost of Ladora,” Books at Iowa 19, November 1973.
“Dear Mr. Stratemeyer”: Mildred Augustine to Edward Stratemeyer, October 6, 1926, SSR/NYPL, box 14.
“I think you can”: Edward Stratemeyer to Mildred Augustine, September 29, 1926, SSR/NYPL, box 26.
“Two brothers of high school age”:GHB, p. 62.
“As McFarlane later joked”: introduction to GHB.
“By mid-1929”: Marvin Heiferman and Carole Kismaric, The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), p. 20 (hereafter cited as Heiferman/Kismaric).
“For this series I have in mind”: Edward Stratemeyer to Barse & Hopkins, June 27, 1927, SSR/NYPL, box 27.
CHAPTER SIX: NANCY DREW LAND
“Stratemeyer thought her accomplishment”: Edward Stratemeyer to Mildred Augustine, June 8, 1927, SSR/NYPL, box 27.
“Attempt[ing] to improve”: Mildred Augustine to Edward Stratemeyer, June 6, 1927, SSR/NYPL, box 27.
“A few months ago”: Mildred Wirt to Edward Stratemeyer, May 16, 1928, SSR/NYPL, box 117.
“As perhaps you know”: Edward Stratemeyer to L. F. Reed, July 19, 1929, SSR/NYPL, box 27.
“Suggestions for a new series of girls books”: Edward Stratemeyer to Grosset & Dunlap, September 20, 1929, SSR/NYPL, box 320.
“If the titles are acceptable”: L. F. Reed to Edward Stratemeyer, September 26, 1929, SSR/NYPL, box 27.
“I have just succeeded”: Edward Stratemeyer to Mildred Wirt, September 29, 1929, SSR/NYPL, box 27.
“I trust that you will give”: Edward Stratemeyer to Mildred Wirt, October 3, 1929, SSR/NYPL, box 27.
“Between 1929 and 1933”: Collins, p. 313.
“Ten million women”: Eunice Fuller Barnard, “And After All, It Is Still a Man’s World,” New York Times, November 23, 1930.
“Seven out of ten”: R. L. Duffus, “Women Who Work Increase in Numbers and Influence,” New York Times, September 14, 1930.
“From 1930 to 1940”: Deutsch, p. 453.
“I know now”: Deutsch, p. 454.
“A party frock”: All excerpts from The Secret of the Old Clock in this section come from Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930).
“Even as Eleanor Roosevelt”: Collins, p. 359.
“Dear Mrs. Wirt”: Edward Stratemeyer to Mildred Wirt, December 11, 1929, SSR/NYPL, box 27.
“At the end of The Bungalow Mystery”: Carolyn Keene, The Bungalow Mystery (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930), pp. 137, 204.
“Selling like hot cakes”: Henry Altemus to Harriet Adams, March 21, 1931, SSR/NYPL, box 17.
“We expect to publish a few juveniles”: Laura Harris to Harriet Adams, May 8, 1931, SSR/NYPL, box 18.
“By Christmas of 1933”: “For It Was Indeed He,” p. 88.
“Dear Miss Stratemeyer”: Harriet Otis Smith to Edna Stratemeyer, January 28, 1930, SSR/NYPL, box 28.
“This is all Dad has to say”: Edna Stratemeyer to Harriet Otis Smith, January 27, 1930, SSR/NYPL, box 17.
“It is a question”: Harriet Otis Smith to Henry Altemus Jr., May 8, 1930, SSR/NYPL, box 28.
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