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** ''Literature/NancyDrew'' was feminism delivered with all the subtlety of a Mardi Gras float. Nancy has constantly been under scrutiny for her MarySue tendencies and general perfectness. However, when the series began in 1930, feminism was still only just picking up steam. The books went a long way to in helping create the idea of women being smart, tough, resourceful, and capable.
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** ''Literature/NancyDrew'' was feminism delivered with all the subtlety of a Mardi Gras float. Nancy has constantly been under scrutiny for her MarySue tendencies and general perfectness. However, when the series began in 1930, feminism was still only just picking up steam. The books went a long way to in helping create the idea of women being smart, tough, resourceful, and capable.
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** ''Literature/NancyDrew'' was feminism delivered with all the subtlety of a Mardi Gras float. Nancy has constantly been under scrutiny for her MarySue tendencies and general perfectness. However, when the series began in 1930, feminism was still only just picking up steam. The books went a long way to in helping create the idea of women being smart, tough, resourceful, and capable.
** ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'' had a strong anti-authority message initially (easily summed up in the idea that the brothers never listened when the police told them to back off and leave the detective work to them.) This was deliberate on the part of primary ghostwriter Leslie [=McFarlane=], who wanted to try to encourage independent thought in children, saying that cops and politicians can be just as crooked as anybody. Considering all the cases of political corruption and police brutality that have been reported on, it's not an entirely horrible belief to hold.
** ''Literature/NancyDrew'' was feminism delivered with all the subtlety of a Mardi Gras float. Nancy has constantly been under scrutiny for her MarySue tendencies and general perfectness. However, when the series began in 1930, feminism was still only just picking up steam. The books went a long way to in helping create the idea of women being smart, tough, resourceful, and capable.
** ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'' had a strong anti-authority message initially (easily summed up in the idea that the brothers never listened when the police told them to back off and leave the detective work to them.) This was deliberate on the part of primary ghostwriter Leslie [=McFarlane=], who wanted to try to encourage independent thought in children, saying that cops and politicians can be just as crooked as anybody. Considering all the cases of political corruption and police brutality that have been reported on, it's not an entirely horrible belief to hold.
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* OlderThanTheDemographic: Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys are not only older than the elementary school kids who loved to read their stories, but they even had platonic lovers simply to appear more grown up to their readers.
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* ChannelHop: In 1979, after the original publishers Grossett and Dunlap did very little to celebrate the Hardy Boys 50th anniversary in 1977 and gave the Stratemeyer Syndicate a resounding "meh" when asked about Nancy's 50th in 1980, the Syndicate decided to sever ties with them and move both series over to Simon and Schuster (after a rather ugly court case). The series were then moved to paperback, and S&S decided to experiment with the format, both going LighterAndSofter (with SpinOffBabies series like ''The Nancy Drew Notebooks'' and ''The Hardy Boys are: The Clues Brothers'') and DarkerAndEdgier (''The Nancy Drew Files, The Hardy Boys Casefiles''). Both franchises are cranking out new books to this day.
* MoneyDearBoy: A large number of the ghostwriters were primarily journalists writing the books while moonlighting for extra cash. The salary varied due to the ebbs and flows of the publishing industry, but by many accounts the writers were paid well. (Roughly $100 per book, which, compared to journalist's salaries at the time, approximated six weeks salary for a book which might be four-weeks work.) Leslie [=McFarlane=] (the ''Hardy Boys'' original ghostwriter) in particular grew to hate writing the books (calling them "those damn juveniles") but kept getting roped back in to feed his family.
** Reportedly, he eventually refused to continue writing books for ''The Dana Girls'', in which he had to write about multiple female characters while using a female pseudonym, arguing that "starvation seemed preferable".
* MoneyDearBoy: A large number of the ghostwriters were primarily journalists writing the books while moonlighting for extra cash. The salary varied due to the ebbs and flows of the publishing industry, but by many accounts the writers were paid well. (Roughly $100 per book, which, compared to journalist's salaries at the time, approximated six weeks salary for a book which might be four-weeks work.) Leslie [=McFarlane=] (the ''Hardy Boys'' original ghostwriter) in particular grew to hate writing the books (calling them "those damn juveniles") but kept getting roped back in to feed his family.
** Reportedly, he eventually refused to continue writing books for ''The Dana Girls'', in which he had to write about multiple female characters while using a female pseudonym, arguing that "starvation seemed preferable".
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* ChannelHop: In 1979, after the original publishers Grossett and Dunlap did very little to celebrate the Hardy Boys 50th anniversary in 1977 and gave the Stratemeyer Syndicate a resounding "meh" when asked about Nancy's 50th in 1980, the Syndicate decided to sever ties with them and move both series over to Simon and Schuster (after a rather ugly court case). The series were then moved to paperback, and S&S decided to experiment with the format, both going LighterAndSofter (with SpinOffBabies series like ''The Nancy Drew Notebooks'' and ''The Hardy Boys are: The Clues Brothers'') and DarkerAndEdgier (''The Nancy Drew Files, The Hardy Boys Casefiles''). Both franchises are cranking out new books to this day.
* MoneyDearBoy: A large number of the ghostwriters were primarily journalists writing the books while moonlighting for extra cash. The salary varied due to the ebbs and flows of the publishing industry, but by many accounts the writers were paid well. (Roughly $100 per book, which, compared to journalist's salaries at the time, approximated six weeks salary for a book which might be four-weeks work.) Leslie [=McFarlane=] (the ''Hardy Boys'' original ghostwriter) in particular grew to hate writing the books (calling them "those damn juveniles") but kept getting roped back in to feed his family.
** Reportedly, he eventually refused to continue writing books for ''The Dana Girls'', in which he had to write about multiple female characters while using a female pseudonym, arguing that "starvation seemed preferable".
* MoneyDearBoy: A large number of the ghostwriters were primarily journalists writing the books while moonlighting for extra cash. The salary varied due to the ebbs and flows of the publishing industry, but by many accounts the writers were paid well. (Roughly $100 per book, which, compared to journalist's salaries at the time, approximated six weeks salary for a book which might be four-weeks work.) Leslie [=McFarlane=] (the ''Hardy Boys'' original ghostwriter) in particular grew to hate writing the books (calling them "those damn juveniles") but kept getting roped back in to feed his family.
** Reportedly, he eventually refused to continue writing books for ''The Dana Girls'', in which he had to write about multiple female characters while using a female pseudonym, arguing that "starvation seemed preferable".
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* ValuesDissonance: While the books evolved to fit with changing values, they also heavily show the values of their time as well. Such as the many racist portrayals of characters in the old ''HardyBoys'' books.
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* ValuesDissonance: While the books evolved to fit with changing values, they also heavily show the values of their time as well. Such as the many racist portrayals of characters in the old ''HardyBoys'' ''Literature/HardyBoys'' books.
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* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: Edward Stratemeyer thought so when he got involved in a minor dust up between the Syndicate and MoralGuardians who felt like his books were little more than literary junk food which would turn kids off reading "better" books (this has since been proven not true.) When asked if he was upset the Newark Public Library refused to stock his books, he said he was fine with it; if kids couldn't ''rent'' the books from a library, they were more likely to ''buy'' them from stores, and his sales in Newark more than tripled.
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* ValuesDissonance: While the books evolved to fit with changing values, they also heavily show the values of their time as well. Such as the many racist portrayals of characters in the old ''HardyBoys'' books.
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