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Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy

Jean Webster - Author
Elaine Showalter - Editor/introduction
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Book: Paperback | 5.15 x 7.79in | 384 pages | ISBN 9780143039068 | 30 Nov 2004 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy

Two vivacious epistolary novels of young womanhood

One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), follows the progress of Judy’s former orphanage, now run by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles to give her young charges hope and a new life.

One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear Enemy (1915), follows the progress of Judy’s former orphanage, now run by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles to give her young charges hope and a new life.


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