Daddy Long Legs

by Jean Webster

Overview

Jean Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain, and it shows. "Daddy Long Legs" is her best-known book, published in 1911. It is an epistolary novel and a profound and tender homage to the power of awakening love.

Jerusha (Judy) Abbot is 18, and has outgrown the orphanage in which she grew up. Her carers aren't sure what to do with her; Judy's too smart to be wasted on Household School, but there's just no money to pay for college. That is, until a rich trustee reads an essay written by Judy, and it makes him laugh. He offers to send her to college to become a writer, on the condition that she writes him regular letters to keep him up to date with events.

There's just one problem, Judy has no idea whom her generous benefactor actually is. Three things she knows: he is rich, he is tall and he dislikes girls.
He never answers any of her letters - but seems somehow always to be present in her life...
This extremely funny Cinderella story follows Judy through her college years, as she tries to fit in with her rich friends...and their handsome uncles (who somehow seem very familiar). The story is told through her letters to 'Dear Daddy Long Legs'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788834186404
Publisher:	E-BOOKARAMA
Publication date:	01/22/2024
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	473,747
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

"The grandniece of Mark Twain, Alice Jane Chandler Webster was born in July 1876 in Fredonia, New York. In 1894, she graduated in China painting from the Fredonia Normal School and joined the Lady Jane Grey School from where she graduated in 1896. Her experience here provided an inspiration for her novel Just Patty. Webster joined the Vassar College in 1897 from where she majored in English and Economics. Interested in social issues, she took up courses in penal reform and welfare. Her novels When Patty Went to College and Daddy-Long-Legs were inspired by her college experience at Vassar. Webster contributed stories to the Vassar Miscellany and wrote weekly columns for the Poughkeepsie Sunday Courier. Her first novel, When Patty Went to College was published in 1903. It describes the life of contemporary women in an all-girl’s college. In 1907, she published Jerry Junior and in 1908, The Four Pools Mystery. Much Ado About Peter was published in 1909. Webster began writing Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) after the publication of Just Patty in 1911. First serialized in the Ladies’ Home Journal, it is her most popular work. The sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs, Dear Enemy was published in November 1915. Webster died of childbirth fever on June 11, 1916."