1912ĭear Enemy first published in the United States of America by The Century Co. Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africaĭaddy-Long-Legs first published in the United States of America by The Century Co. Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Penguin Books (NZ), Cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, She is professor emerita of English at Princeton University and now lives in Washington, D.C., and London. Her articles have appeared in an array of publications, including the Times Literary Supplement and People. She died the following year, shortly after giving birth to their daughter, who survived.ĮLAINE SHOWALTER is the author of the groundbreaking A Literature of Their Own and other books including Teaching Literature, Inventing Herself, Hystories, Sexual Anarchy, and The Female Malady, and the editor of volumes including the Penguin Classics editions of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and George Gissing’s The Odd Women. Also in 1915, Jean Webster married lawyer and Standard Oil Company heir Glenn Ford McKinney, some seven years after they began their affair (and a few months after his divorce was final). The novel’s sequel, Dear Enemy, appeared in 1915. It later became the basis for several movies. In 1912 Webster published Daddy-Long-Legs, the novel that brought her great popular acclaim as well as financial security when she adapted it into a stage play in 1914. Her first novel, When Patty Went to College, came out in 1903, and was followed by The Wheat Princess (1905), Jerry Junior (1907), The Four Pools Mystery (1908), Much Ado About Peter (1909), and Just Patty (1911).

She published stories and articles in newspapers and in magazines, including McClure’s. Her interest in both continued after her graduation in 1901, especially when she moved to New York’s Greenwich Village. A grand-niece of Mark Twain, Webster attended Vassar College, where she developed an interest in orphanages and social welfare and began to pursue a literary career. JEAN WEBSTER was born Alice Jane Chandler Webster in 1876 and grew up in Fredonia, New York, and in New York City. THE LETTERS OF MISS JERUSHA ABBOTT to MR.

Daddy long legs and dear enemy