Camp Fire USA in Fiction
Throughout the years Camp Fire has appeared in many novels written for youth. Irene Ellion Benson wrote one of the first books to incorporate Camp Fire called How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl, published in 1912. Between 1912 and 1918 Irene Benson published six books with Camp Fire in them. In 1913, Margaret Vandercook started a series of Camp Fire Girls books which portrayed many activities, rituals, and ceremonies of Camp Fire, including their summer camps. In the 1980s Camp Fire was featured in the Carolyn Keene and Franklin Dixon's Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys Camp Fire Stories. British writers have even used Camp Fire and their rituals in British children's fiction. Author Elsie J. Oxenham often mentioned Camp Fire in her series the "Abbey".
Other writers who used Camp Fire in their writing include:
- Amy E. Blanchard
- Edward M. Carney
- Margaret Christian
- Marion Davidson, under the pen name Howard Roger Garis
- Julianne deVries
- Stella M. Francis
- Hildegard G. Frey
- Helen Hart
- Isabel Hornibrook
- Margaret Penrose
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