Daddy-Long-Legs: An Orphan's Letters to Her Benefactor
Jean Webster
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 44 full-page plates by Spencer Gore, Edvard Munch and Sydney Carline. An orphan girl is sent to college by a trustee she has never met, on condition that she writes to him monthly and expects no reply. The whole novel is her letters, with her own drawings. Jean Webster had campaigned for orphanage reform and put the case inside a love story that has never gone out of print. Forty-four plates by painters including John Lavery and Vincent van Gogh widen the story's world of letters, studios, parks and factories into the wider world her correspondence opens onto.
Complete and unabridged, with 44 full-page plates by Spencer Gore, Edvard Munch and Sydney Carline. An orphan girl is sent to college by a trustee she has never met, on condition that she writes to him monthly and expects no reply. The whole novel is her letters, with her own drawings. Jean Webst...
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Jean Webster (1876-1916) was an American writer born in Fredonia, New York, a great-niece of Mark Twain. She campaigned for prison and orphanage reform, which she wove into her fiction, and died at thirty-nine the day after giving birth. Her works include Daddy-Long-Legs, Dear Enemy, and When Patty Went to College.
Jean Webster (1876-1916) was an American writer born in Fredonia, New York, a great-niece of Mark Twain. She campaigned for prison and orphanage reform, which she wove into her fiction, and died at thirty-nine the day after giving birth. Her works include Daddy-Long-Legs, Dear Enemy, and When Pat...
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