![These Books Made Me artwork](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts125/v4/58/bc/55/58bc55b8-4cba-f56c-e1b0-6202d718fe41/mza_12730806391646770629.jpg/100x100bb.jpg)
Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock
These Books Made Me
English - December 01, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 44 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBooks Arts Leisure books millennial libraries literary heroines throwback female kidlit girls classics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode finds us in the ambiguously located town of River Heights with teen sleuth, Nancy Drew. The Nancy series has mega intergenerational nostalgia vibes for a lot of us —that row of yellow spines on a shelf transports many of us straight back to childhood. But revisiting our Nancy-love by starting with book 1, The Secret of the Old Clock, produces some mixed emotions. Where are Bess and George? Why is Nancy blonde, wasn't she Titian-haired? While we may have been fuzzy on some of the details, Nancy's escapades are still a pretty wild romp. She's saving babies with massive head injuries, chasing a violent gang of thieves, helping little old ladies, and benefitting from all sorts of violations of attorney-client privilege. This book has everything... missing wills, two tragic boating accidents, a ripped evening gown, and a Euclidean lever. This episode has everything too... more sound effects, The Stratemeyer Syndicate, legal opinions, and a major spoiler for our next episode.
These Books Made Me is a podcast about the literary heroines who shaped us and is a product of the Prince George's County Memorial Library System podcast network. Stay in touch with us via Twitter @PGCMLS with #TheseBooksMadeMe or by email at [email protected]. For recommended readalikes and deep dives into topics related to each episode, visit out blog at https://pgcmls.medium.com/.
Midred Benson: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/adventurous-writer-who-brought-Nancy-Drew-to-life-180969479/
Changes from the 30s to the 50s revision: https://library.csun.edu/SCA/Peek-in-the-Stacks/nancy-drew