Beyond Nancy Drew U.S. Girls' Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century

Introduction: Imperfect Adventures: 'Relatable' Heroines in Twentieth-Century Girls' Series Fiction
LuElla D'Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey

Chapter 1: Betty Wales: From Series Book Heroine to Lifestyle Brand
Jill Hobgood

Chapter 2: Adventure, Mystery, and Fashion: On Fashion and the Modelling Profession in Polly the Powers Model: The Puzzle of the Haunted Camera
Erika Johansson Lunding

Chapter 3: Finding the Right Formula, or How The Madge Sterling Series Provided Mildred Wirt (Benson) with the Perfect Formula for Writing Children's Mystery Series
Todd Latoski

Chapter 4: Before Nancy Drew: American Girls' Series Fiction of the 1920s
Susan Ingalls Lewis

Chapter 5: On Being Glad: Pollyanna and Stoic Thought
LuElla D'Amico and Gregory Eiselein

Chapter 6: "To See If College Could Make Half the Woman of Me That It Made of My Mother": The Beverly Gray Series as a Mid-Century Return to Progressive Era Girls' Series Fiction
Emily Hamilton-Honey

Chapter 7: Maida Westabrook: Inez Haynes Gillmore Irwin's Little Lady Bountiful
Robin Cadwallader

Chapter 8: Miss Pickerell Tackles the Stereotypes: Gender, Science Education, and Mid-century Science Fiction
Liz W. Faber

Chapter 9: "More like Americans": Sydney Taylor's Queering of Historical Fiction Girls' Series Melanie J. Fishbane

Chapter 10: "To prove their worth in a man's world": Depicting and Encouraging White Women's Growing Professional Opportunities in Betty Baxter Anderson's 1940s Career Novels Karen Keely

Chapter 11: Inventing the Career Girl Narrative in Vicki Barr
Michael Cornelius

Chapter 12: Student Dancer: Education, Community, and Love in Regina J. Woody's Dance-Career Novels
Jill E. Anderson