About the Book: Daddy Long Legs
Daddy-Long-Legs is a novel written in the form of a series of letters from a
bright young girl, Jerusha Abbott, to her unknown benefactor. Jerusha grew up in
an orphanage and one of its trustees offers to pay for her to go to college
after reading one of her entertaining essays. This benefactors conditions are
that Jerusha must write to him regularly to update him on her progress, but he
will remain unknown. Jerusha, who catches a glimpse of him, address her letters
to 'Daddy-Long-Legs.This delightful epistolary novel traces the next few years
of Jerushas life, as she completes her