Edward Stratemeyer and Howard Garis wrote most of the volumes in the original series ; Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, wrote the last three volumes.

Subsequent Nancy Drew stories ( with some exceptions ), for which Wirt provided text, were all re-written by Edna Stratemeyer Squier and, primarily, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, after their father's death in 1930.

Also involved in the Nancy Drew writing process were Harriet Stratemeyer Adams's daughters, who gave input on the series and sometimes helped to choose book titles ; the Syndicate's secretary, Harriet Otis Smith, who invented the characters of Nancy's friends Bess and George ; and the editors at Grosset and Dunlap.

In 1930, Stratemeyer died, and the Syndicate was inherited by his two daughters, Harriet Stratemeyer and Edna Stratemeyer Squier.

Stratemeyer Squier sold her share to her sister Harriet within a few years.

In the 1950s, Harriet ( by now Harriet Stratemeyer Adams ) began substantially revising old volumes in the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, updating them by removing references to " roadster " and the like.

For the Tom Swift Jr. series the books were outlined mostly by Harriet ( Stratemeyer ) Adams, head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, attributed to the pseudonymous Victor Appleton II, and published in hardcover by Grosset & Dunlap.

They include mountain climbers ( Heidi Howkins, class of 1989, the only woman to lead expeditions to both Everest and K-2 ), authors ( such as Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, class of 1914, pen name Carolyn Keene ), astronomers ( including Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884, who developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature ), screenwriters, ( including Nora Ephron, class of 1962, famous for such films as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle ), journalists ( Linda Wertheimer, class of 1965, Lynn Sherr, class of 1963, Diane Sawyer, class of 1967, and Cokie Roberts, class of 1964, being a few notable examples ), entrepreneurs ( including Robin Chase, class of 1980, the co-founder of ZipCar ), mathematicians ( Winifred Edgerton Merrill, class of 1883, was the first woman to ever receive a PhD in mathematics ), judges ( including Jane Bolin, class of 1928, the first African-American woman to become a judge, and current federal appeals judges Reena Raggi, Amalya Kearse, and Susan P. Graber ).

Stratemeyer originally developed and wrote the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries written under the Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene pseudonyms respectively ( and were later written by his daughter, Harriet Adams, and other authors ).

Beginning in 1934, Stratemeyer's other daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, began contributing plot outlines ; she and Andrew Svenson wrote most of the plot outlines for the next several decades.

Harriet Stratemeyer Adams ( December 11, 1892 – March 27, 1982 ) was an American juvenile mystery novelist and publisher who authored some 200 books over her literary career.

After Edward Stratemeyer's death in May 1930, his two daughters, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams ( 1892 – 1982 ) and Edna C. Squier ( 1895 – 1974 ), ran the company, with the result that Garis stopped writing for the Syndicate in 1933 after several disagreements.

Actual writers taking up the pen of Laura Lee Hope include Edward Stratemeyer, Howard and Lilian Garis, Elizabeth Ward, Harriet ( Stratemeyer ) Adams, Andrew E. Svenson, June M. Dunn, Grace Grote and Nancy Axelrad.

Elizabeth Ward is credited with volumes 29 – 35, while Harriet Stratemeyer Adams is credited with 36 – 38, 39 ( with Camilla McClave ), 40, 42, 43 ( with Andrew Svenson ), and 44 – 48.

68, The Bobbsey Twins on the Sun-Moon Cruise, was the result of a research trip for a proposed Nancy Drew book: Harriet Stratemeyer Adams and Nancy Axelrad ( her personal assistant at the time ) took an actual eclipse cruise but, when they returned, the publisher was more interested in a new Bobbsey title.

The text was completely rewritten by series owner Harriet Stratemeyer Adams in 1961.

As warmer temperatures were encountered Ann and Harriet were introduced to the pleasures of bathing daily in salt water.

A few days after the performance, Berlioz and Harriet were finally introduced and entered into a relationship.

She introduced him to Transactional Analysis therapists and joined him in meditation twice a day, ( given to him by Harriet Levy ), and cooked him a macrobiotic diet.

Its publisher, John Chapman, introduced Spencer to his salon which was attended by many of the leading radical and progressive thinkers of the capital, including John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, George Henry Lewes and Mary Ann Evans ( George Eliot ), with whom he was briefly romantically linked.

In addition, the audience is introduced to the also stereotypical Irish American wife ( Harriet Sansom Harris ), who helps in the pub but is generally a traditional middle-aged housewife ( but oddly has little problems accepting her soon-to-be daughter-in-law's parents ), as well as the couple's tough-but-kind daughter ( Paige Moss ), who waitresses in the family's bar.

The Harriet Cohen International Music Award was introduced in her honour in 1951.

He resigned as Primarolo's PPS just a few months later in 1997 over lone-parent benefits cuts introduced by the Secretary of State for Social Security Harriet Harman.

In October, 2000, Franklin's little sister Harriet was introduced in the direct-to-video and DVD movie Franklin and the Green Knight.

1930 Strong Poison ( published 1930 ) Harriet Vane is introduced, and Bunter has his part as the perfect servant.

Garis introduced Svenson to Stratemeyer Syndicate partner Harriet Adams in 1947.

Weld contributed to the anti-slavery convictions of such men as Joshua R. Giddings and Edwin M. Stanton, enlisted John Quincy Adams, and helped provide ideas which underlay Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Despite the pragmatism of classical economists, their views were expressed in dogmatic terms by such popular writers as Jane Marcet and Harriet Martineau.

The most important of these, Magnalia Christi Americana ( 1702 ), comprises seven distinct books, many of which depict biographical and historical narratives to which later American writers, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, would look in describing the cultural significance of New England for later generations after the American Revolution.

Due to deadlines, some real-world events have rendered some of Trudeau ’ s comics unusable, such as a 1973 series featuring John Ehrlichman, a 1989 series set in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, a 1993 series involving Zoë Baird, and a 2005 series involving Harriet Miers.

In these cases, the position has been filled by a female relative or friend of the president, such as Martha Jefferson Randolph during Jefferson's presidency, Emily Donelson and Sarah Yorke Jackson during Jackson's, Mary Elizabeth ( Taylor ) Bliss during Taylor's, Mary Harrison McKee during Harrison's presidency, upon her mother's death, and Harriet Lane during Buchanan's.

In France, Charles Kemble initiated an enthusiasm for Shakespeare ; and leading members of the Romantic movement such as Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas saw his 1827 Paris performance of Hamlet, particularly admiring the madness of Harriet Smithson's Ophelia.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the bestselling novel that fueled abolitionist work, was the best known of the anti-slavery novels that portrayed such escapes across the Ohio.

Harriet O ' Brien doubts that Cnut, the shrewd politician who " masterminded the bloodless takeover of Norway " could have been deceived in such a way.

" She joined the literary circles of New York and Boston and made the acquaintance of local lights on the lecture circuit, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book whose anti-slavery message Leonowens had brought to the attention of the royal household.

Many highly educated amateurs now also travelled to Egypt, however, including women such as Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale, who both left fascinatingly philosophical accounts of their travels, which revealed learned familiarity with all the latest European Egyptology.

His concept of sociologie and social evolutionism, though now outdated, set the tone for early social theorists and anthropologists such as Harriet Martineau and Herbert Spencer, evolving into modern academic sociology presented by Émile Durkheim as practical and objective social research.

However, the opening of Harriet Cohen's private papers and the research into them by scholars, such as the Norwegian musicologist Thomas Elnaes, indicates that such a link is at best speculative.

Originally featuring classic sitcoms such as The Donna Reed Show, Mr. Ed and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, programming changed to repeats of popular sitcoms from the 1980s and 1990s such as Full House, Home Improvement, The Cosby Show and Roseanne.

Labour critics such as the future Cabinet Minister & Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Harriet Harman, considered that PFI was really a back-door form of privatisation ( House of Commons, 7 December 1993 ), and the future Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, warned that " apparent savings now could be countered by the formidable commitment on revenue expenditure in years to come ".

He did work steadily, appearing in dozens of films over the years, in such successful releases as Samson and Delilah ; two Bob Hope / Bing Crosby " Road " films, Road to Singapore and Road to Rio ; and the Ozzie and Harriet feature Here Come the Nelsons.

Women who advocated for women's rights such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, and Harriet Martineau were accused of disrupting the natural order of things, and condemned as unfeminine.

In contrast to other popular comedies of the era ( such as Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver, and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ), which depicted their characters in comfortable, middle class suburban environments, the set design for The Honeymooners reflected the blue collar existence of its characters.

The streets of the town were named after the wives of the planners and prominent men of the town, such as Minerva, Mary, Harriet, Lucy, Louisa, and Cornelia.

Today, the collection includes masterworks such as Frederic Church's Chimborazo ( 1864 ) and Harriet Hosmer's monumental sculpture Zenobia in Chains ( 1859 ).

The neighborhood where William Gillette was born, Nook Farm, Hartford, Connecticut, was a literary and intellectual center, with such residents as Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Dudley Warner.