Daddy-Long-Legs: 0000 (Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series) - Hardcover

Webster, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679423125 ISBN 13: 9780679423126

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1993

Synopsis

All sorts of things begin to happen when an orphaned boarding school student finally meets the wealthy guardian with whom she has corresponded for years sight unseen.

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Review:

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About the Author:

Jean Webster (1875-1916) was born in Fredonia, New York, the daughter of Charles L. Webster, who was Mark Twain's publisher and business partner. Educated at Vassar College, she must have been a woman with a strong social conscience, perhaps aroused by her visits as a student to orphanages and other institutions (part of her economics course: her degree was in English and economics). She was always concerned for the plight of children who began life with such disadvantages and later she served on committees for prison reform and regularly visited Sing Sing jail. She wrote a number of novels that are now forgotten, but the last two, Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) and its sequel Dear Enemy (1915), have survived both in book form, stage and film versions, and a British musical comedy Love from Judy produced in 1953. In 1915 Jean Webster married Glenn Ford McKinney. She died a year later, the day after the birth of her daughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679423125
• ISBN 13: 9780679423126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Illustrator: Webster Jean