Ebook {Epub PDF} Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster

Second Edition of the Epistolary Novel DADDY LONG LEGS by Jean Webster, with original drawings in black and white by Iris Aspinall Priest. PREFACE Since I read "Daddy Long Legs" by Jean Webster during one of the summers of my secondary school years I followed in love with the story and this style of writing. Recently, I had the chance to take care of a new edition of this epistolary novel and 4/5(43). Jean Webster had a privleged upbringing but through her charity visits to the poor becomes convinced less well-off children could succeed in life. Heady stuff in so to illlustrate her point she writes Daddy-Long-Legs about Judy,a young orphan sent to college by a kindly but anonymous benefactor she calls Daddy-Long-Legs/5().  · Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster was first published in It follows an epistolatory format and traces the story through a series of letters exchanged between the youthful heroine, Jerusha and her mysterious benefactor whom she has privately nicknamed Daddy-Long-Legs based on a brief glimpse she caught of him once. The book is a young girl's.

I just re-read Daddy Long Legs and Dear Enemy back to back after Jennie's review. I still love Daddy Long Legs as much as ever. The hero is 14 years older than the heroine, Judy. The sequel Dear Enemy is also in the form of letters from Sallie McBride to Judy and it takes place around one to two years after Daddy Long Legs. The biography of my copy of Daddy-Long-Legs described its author as an orphan, but Jean Webster lived with both parents until she was fifteen years old. Nonetheless, as Alice Sanford's article in the Vassar Miscellany (June ) explains, the success of Daddy-Long-Legs created many opportunities for actual orphans. Jean Webster Booklist Jean Webster Message Board. Daddy-long-legs is a story of a young girl, Jerusha Abbott and her letters to her benefactor whom she has never www.doorway.ru story proceeds through her college www.doorway.rua Abbott was brought up at an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity.

Jean Webster Booklist Jean Webster Message Board Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Daddy Long Legs Daddy-long-legs is a story of a young girl, Jerusha Abbott and her letters to her benefactor whom she has never www.doorway.ru story proceeds through her college www.doorway.rua Abbott was brought up at an old-fashioned orphanage. Daddy-Long-Legs is a epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, as she leaves an orphanage and is sent to college by a benefactor whom she has never seen. An appreciation and analysis of Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster (), a novel told through the letters of the orphaned Judy Abbott. Literary Ladies Guide Inspiration for Readers and Writers from Classic Women Authors.