Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years, who writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen. Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were completely dependent on charity and had to wear other people's cast-off clothes. Jerusha's unusual first name was selected by the matron off ...
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Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years, who writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen. Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were completely dependent on charity and had to wear other people's cast-off clothes. Jerusha's unusual first name was selected by the matron off a gravestone (she hates it and uses "Judy" instead), while her surname was selected out of the phone book. At the age of 17, she finished her education and is at loose ends, still working in the dormitories at the institution where she was brought up.
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I first read this aged fourteen & loved it -- it was a favourite of my Mother's. I am 80 & now my Granddaughter is interested in it & so it goes on........
Melanie
Jan 19, 2012
Great read!
This is a wonderful read and the book arrived in perfect condition. I bought a second copy for a friend and we thoroughly enjoyed reading this 100-year-old novel.
Dawn V
Oct 21, 2010
Good classic
good classic, interesting perspective of college age young lady in the early 1900s
SusanDale
Jan 25, 2010
I just re-read this again recently and was charmed afresh. I think it is a lovely story. It reminded me of other books written in this format I have enjoyed: 84 Charing Cross Rd, The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society, etc.
