Jean Webster
Birth date: July 24, 1876
Died: June 11, 1916
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“Sansho the Steward” by Mori Ogai This is a poignant short story about a brother and sister who are kidnapped and sold into slavery. There’s no way there could be a happy end for both of them. The Golden Slipper, and other problems for Violet Strange by Anna Katherine Green A fun detective nov...
I should think of a clever shelf name for books like this and The Red House Mystery – something like "they wrote mysteries too??" Except Goodreads would delete the question marks. Jean Webster is better known for [book:Daddy Long-legs], which I loved when younger and was a little disappointed in whe...
bookshelves: spring-2015, tbr-busting-2015, published-1912, young-adult, coming-of-age, orphans Read from November 15, 2014 to April 08, 2015 F Narrated by Julia WhelanDescription: Jerusha Abbott grew up in an orphanage but was sent to college by a mysterious benefactor she calls Daddy-Long-Le...
Jerusha "Judy" Abbott is a Canadian orphan, who at 17 is still living in the orphanage, mainly because they are using her as free help. She is frequently told that she needs to keep her strong opinions and overactive imagination to herself, or nothing will come of her. She dreams of becoming a famou...
After reading Daddy long legs and Dear enemy I really had high expectation from this book but sadly I didn't enjoy this. Patty turned out to be a real boring character compared to Judy or Sallie. The main problem was with the story, it neither had good a start nor end all chapters were like a short...
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