Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood: The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story (Sport, Culture, and Society) Edward Underhill As she forges ahead

As she forges ahead

With rare affection

and host of the beloved Keep It podcast—combines memoir and criticism to offer a brand-new pop-culture manifesto

in this sapphic coming-of-age story by the author of Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating―perfect for fans of She Gets the Girl

which celebrated same-sex desire

Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood: The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story (Sport, Culture, and Society) Edward Underhill As she forges aheadGilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty thousand word stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete at Yale University who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. Patten and his publisher, Street and Smith, initially had only a general idea about what would constitute Merriwells adventures and who would want to read about them when they introduced the