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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
The initial post made me look in to Nancy Drew. I grew up not reading Nancy or the Hardy Boys (but I did love Encyclopedia Brown).
The Nancy Drew books started being revised back in 1959. If the books you read had the familiar yellow covers with a painting, it was a revised edition.
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Yup. But you can read too much into that. At least back in my Nancy Drew reading days which were most certainly after 1959, you mostly read books that had been passed around; you’d get them from families with older girls. The dust jackets were long gone, they had the familiar blue covers, Nancy was 16 years old, Titian-haired, wore frocks and drove a roadster,
that was the real Nancy! Worse, according to Wikipedia:
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In the Harriet Adams revisions, Nancy is depicted as a less impulsive, less headstrong girl of Stratemeyer and Mildred's vision, to a milder, more sedate and refined girl— "more sugar and less spice",
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Faugh!