The musical Daddy Long Legs is based on a book by the same name, published in 1912. Its author is Jean Webster, whose life was as dramatic as any fictional character.📚
Chapter 5 3rd OctoberDear Daddy-Long-Legs,It is a great feeling to come back to the college and I am excited to be in the Senior year—also editor of the Monthly. It seems queer that such a refined person was once an inmate of the John Grier Home? We do arrive fast in America! Here, listen to […]
Chapter 4 26th SeptemberDear Daddy-Long-Legs,It feels good to be back at college again, a fresh start and an upper classman. Our study is better than ever this year—faces the South with two huge windows and oh! So furnished. Julia, with an unlimited allowance, arrived two days early and was attacked with a fever for settling.We
Chapter 3 15th SeptemberDear Daddy-Long-Legs,Behold me—a Sophomore! I reached here last Friday, feeling very miserable for leaving Lock Willow, but delighted to see the campus once more. It is a cheerful sensation to come back to a place which is more or less my home. In fact, I am beginning to feel at home in
Chapter 2 Dear Kind-Trustee-Who-Sends-Orphans-to-College, I reached the college. I know it is funny but I never travelled in a train before, so my journey was quite exciting. College is the biggest, most perplexed place I’ve ever been to—Most of the times it is difficult to find my room whenever I leave it. I will write
Chapter 1 Here comes the day! A day to be awaited with awe, confronted with courage and forgotten with haste is the first Wednesday of every month. Stainless floors, dustless chairs and wrinkleless beds were the need of the hour. All ninety-seven notorious little orphans had to be neatly dressed into newly starched ginghams and