DaddyLongLegs, Jean Webster
DaddyLongLegs, Jean Webster
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Daddy-Long-Legs

Author: Jean Webster

Narrator: Unknown

Unabridged: 3 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: Not Available


Synopsis

Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen year old orphan, faces an uncertain future in the charity home where she has lived all her life. On reaching adulthood, the orphanage can no longer offer shelter to its inmates. Her anxiety leads her into wild speculation when she is summoned to the matron's office. But a surprise awaits her. One of the visitors, a wealthy Trustee of the orphanage, has offered to fund Jerusha's college education and fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer. The only condition he makes is that he remain anonymous and that she write to him regularly about her progress.

About Jean Webster

Jean Webster is the pseudonym of American writer Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876-1916). Best known for her epistolary novel Daddy-Long-Legs, her other works include Dear Enemy, When Patty Went to College, Jerry Junior, and Just Patty, several of which Webster adapted for the stage. Born in Fredonia, New York, she attended Vassar College, where she majored in English and economics. Her writing, characterized by lively and likeable heroines, engaging dialogue, and clever humor, often addresses themes of women's education and suffrage and social reform.


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