When Did Our Favorite Literary Heroines Get So Grown-Up?
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Alicia Kort
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ELLEWhen Did Our Favorite Literary Heroines Get So Grown-Up?elle.comNancy Drew, Blair Waldorf, and Samantha Parkington aren’t so young anymore. Neither, apparently, are their readers. Here's why publishers are going all-in on books such as "Samantha: The Next Chapter," "Blair," "Nancy," and the new-adult genre as a whole.
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