Daddy-Long-Legs & Dear Enemy (Annotated)

Collected together, Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) and Dear Enemy (1915) display Jean Webster's deft command of the epistolary novel, transforming letters into instruments of wit, self-discovery, and social criticism. The first follows orphan Jerusha "Judy" Abbott's education under an anonymous benefactor; the second turns to Sallie McBride's reform of an institutional orphan asylum. Light, ironic, and em...