Daddy-Long-Legs (Annotated)

Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) is an epistolary novel of uncommon charm and structural ingenuity, composed largely of letters written by Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, an orphaned girl whose college education is funded by an anonymous benefactor. Blending Bildungsroman, social comedy, and romantic mystery, the novel traces Judy's intellectual and emotional awakening with wit, freshness, and narrati...