# Daddy-Long-Legs

By Jean Webster.

"Daddy-Long-Legs" by Jean Webster is an epistolary novel published in 1912. It follows Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, a spirited orphan sent to college by a mysterious benefactor she has never met. Through monthly letters addressed to the anonymous "Mr. John Smith," Judy chronicles her journey from institutional life to higher education, discovering friendship, culture, and self-discovery. As she transforms from orphan to aspiring writer, the identity of her tall, shadowy patron—whom she playfully calls Daddy-Long-Legs—remains tantalizingly unknown. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Orphans -- Fiction; Boarding schools -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; Love stories; Bildungsromans; Epistolary fiction; Women authors -- Fiction; Philanthropists -- Fiction; Women college students -- Fiction; Universities and colleges -- Fiction; Letters -- Fiction

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