![]() ![]() The only condition: She must write to him regularly. In fact he is so amused, he arranges for Jerusha to go to college to be educated as a writer. The management are Not Amused … but one of the trustees is. It is not that kind of book.) In her last year of high school she writes an essay about “Blue Wednesday”, the day the orphanage’s trustees come to visit. ( Spoiler alert: We never learn who she “really” is. Jerusha Abbott was raised in an orphanage. ![]() ![]() Therefore, do not look at it with modern eyes. If you look at it with modern eyes, you may find something creepy and even stalkerish in the way the love story plays out. Trigger warning: Daddy-Long-Legs came out in 1911. She died relatively young Daddy-Long-Legs is her best-known book. Jean Webster-Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876-1916) if you want to be stuffy about it-was a grandniece of Mark Twain, and it shows. If you’d like to submit your reasons for loving and keeping a particular book for Squee from the Keeper Shelf, please email Sarah! Despite flaws, despite changes in age and perspective, despite the passage of time, we love particular books beyond reason, and the only thing better than re-reading them is telling other people about them. Squee from the Keeper Shelf is a feature wherein we share why we love the books we love, specifically the stories which are permanent residents of our Keeper shelves. ![]()
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