Jean Webster is the pseudonym of American writer Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876-1916), whose best-known works include Daddy-Long-Legs, Dear Enemy, and Just Patty.
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to wear other people's cast-off clothes. Jerusha's unusual first name was selected by the matron off a grave stone, whi...[SEE MORE]