Word Ways
Abstract
In an essay on Charles Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," in the Journal of American Name Society [1], I added an endnote to the effect that the name of the celebrated teenage crime unraveler, Nancy Drew, may derive from Dickensian sources: a conflation of the heroine's name, Nancy, from "Oliver Twist" along with Drood from the mystery novel bearing that surname.
Recommended Citation
Fleissner, Robert F.
(1994)
"Whence the Name of Nancy Drew?,"
Word Ways: Vol. 27
:
Iss.
2
, Article 24.
Retrieved from:
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol27/iss2/24
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