Daddy-Long-Legs

The main character Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly 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 15, she has finished...