![]() ![]() ![]() Judy knows that she will receive no reply to her letters, except perhaps curt instructions from Daddy’s secretary, so the story is wonderfully one-sided yet still manages to give an impression of what her benefactor’s actions, thoughts, feelings are. Her benefactor’s only requirement is that she write him letters to keep him updated on her college career, which she addresses to “Daddy-Long-Legs,” because all she knows about him is that he is tall.Įxcept for short introduction, the book is entirely epistolary in format, consisting of Judy’s letters to Daddy (or other epithets like “Mr. When an anonymous benefactor offers to send her to college, she reinvents herself as Judy, a vivacious coed studying to be a writer. Jerusha Abbott has lived her whole life in an orphanage, with the monotony of her studies and duties with the younger children broken up only by ice cream on Sundays. Published in 1912, it has a classic feel that has been popular with readers over the years, though I am surprised that it is not better known now. ![]() ![]() This review is my contribution for National Book Review Month (NaRMo).ĭaddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster is a charming short little novel, more of a novella, that I stumbled upon recently. ![]()
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