Photocopy of informational typescript by Margaret Sutton, 1984

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 19

Scope and Contents

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The Anita Avery Girl Detectives Collection is divided into seven series:

Correspondence — Letters, articles, and photographs sent or copied and forwarded to Anita Avery, predominantly concerning Margaret Sutton, author of the Judy Bolton series.

Fan Culture — Newsletters and publications of members of the Society of Phantom Friends, a fan club focused on Judy Bolton and other girls’ series.

Conference Materials — Materials from a conference held at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse June 22-24, 1984: "Eighty Years of Juvenile Series Fiction, or How Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and Friends Have Affected Four Generations."

Miscellaneous Literature — Reproductions of non-Judy Bolton books by Margaret Sutton, generated by the author and sent to Anita Avery in the mid-1980s; also a 2011 publication of the early typescripts that later evolved into Judy Bolton stories.

Ephemera — Miscellaneous materials related to the collection.

Memorabilia — Various Nancy Drew memorabilia dating from the 1930s-2010s.

Audiovisual Material — An audiobook, a VHS tape, and several DVDs of Nancy Drew adaptations.

Dates

Creation: 1984

Conditions Governing Access

The physical materials from this collection may be viewed only in the reading room of Vanderbilt’s Special Collections and University Archives. Materials should be requested two to three days in advance to facilitate easier access. Contact specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu to schedule an appointment.

Full Extent

From the Collection: 5 Linear Feet (2 Hollingers, 6 flat boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Information

Donor note: A Sutton-generated informational two-sided typescript sent to Anita Avery by Sutton with The Magic Makers and the Golden Charm [Box 2, Folder 15]. Top of page one is a picture of The Home at Oden built 1895-97. Text relates it is where Sutton lived the first nine years of her life. Her black cat on the porch (on which she based Judy's Blackberry). She writes of her siblings. The Land of Balo in The Magic Makers and the Golden Charm was her brother Clifford's pretend world. Judy Bolton stories are suggested by real happenings. Judy is a combination of Sutton's thoughts and feelings, her daughter Dorothy's sparking personality, her mother's red hair, and grey eyes from a poem she once read. Judy stories evolved from what Sutton and her brother and sister used to call "the Spool Play" in which spools of thread evolved into people.