Daddy-Long-Legs

2016 Reprint of 1912 Edition. Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist a young girl named Jerusha Judy Abbott through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor a rich man whom she has never seen. A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month and that she can never know who he is. Judys life at college is a whirlwind of friends classes parties and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis Pendleton. With so much happening in her life Judy can scarcely stop writing to Daddy-Long-Legs or wondering who her mysterious benefactor is.