Daddy long legs and dear enemy6/10/2023 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.
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