About the Book: Daddy Long Legs
Daddy Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an 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. The themes of this book reflect upon Websters interests in social work and
womens suffrage. Some scholars have criticized Daddy-Long-Legs as being an
"anti-feminist fairy tale", while others have argued that Judy shows growing
independence, including increasing disobedience to her benefactor and his
wishes, and indeed succeeds in educating Daddy-Long-Legs that he cannot control
her, and that his socialism needs