Back in second grade, when I and many of my classmates were
forming Harriet the Spy clubs, complete with code names and symbols to indicate
various personality traits—including “suspichis” and “meanie”—brassy characters
like Harriet starred in just about all the books I loved. It never occurred to
me that I was behaving in ways that could be considered “unladylike.”
But when the book first came out in the 1960s, that’s exactly
how Harriet’s character was received, according to an
NPR segment this morning.
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