One of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster's
Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy
Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her
development as an independent thinker and writer. Its sequel, Dear
Enemy (1915), follows the progress of Judy's former orphanage, now run
by her friend Sallie McBride, who struggles to give her young charges
hope and a new life.
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