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of a New Century, New York: Henry Holt, 2000, 231.
    8. “Girl Writer as a Juror—Help,” New York Times, May 11, 1909.
    9. Alkalay-Gut, Alone in the Dawn, 249.
    10. Alan Simpson, with Mary Simpson, Jean Webster: Storyteller, New York: Tymor Associates, 1984, 81.
    11. Jean Webster McKinney Papers, Vassar College, Box 12, Folder 5.
    12. Variety, May 16, 1919:54, quoted in Bower, 104-105.
    13. Alkalay-Gut, “Jean Webster.”

Suggestions for Further Reading

BOOKS BY JEAN WEBSTER
    When Patty Went to College. New York: Century, 1903.
    The Wheat Princess. New York: Century, 1905.
    Jerry Junior. New York: Century, 1907.
    The Four Pools Mystery. New York: Century, 1908.
    Much Ado About Peter. New York: Century, 1909.
    Just Patty. New York: Century, 1911.
    Daddy-Long-Legs. New York: Century, 1912.
    Dear Enemy. New York: Century, 1915.

ABOUT JEAN WEBSTER
    Alkalay-Gut, Karen. “Jean Webster,” http://karenalkalay-gut.com/web . html.
    Salisbury, Rachel. “Jean Webster,” Notable American Women, Vol. III. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971, 555-556.
    Simpson, Alan and Mary, with Ralph Connor. Jean Webster: Storyteller. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Tymor Associates, 1984.
    Papers, letters, manuscripts, and clippings are in the Jean Webster McKinney Collection at Vassar College.

ON DADDY-LONG-LEGS
    Alkalay-Gut, Karen. “‘If Mark Twain Had a Sister’: Gender-Specific Values and Structures in Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs. ” Journal of American Culture, 16 (Winter 1993): 91-99.
    Bower, Ann. “Delettering: Responses to Agencies in Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs, ” in Epistolary Responses: The Letter in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Criticism. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.

BACKGROUND READING
    Adickes, Sandra L. To Be Young Was Very Heaven: Women in New York Before the First World War. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
    Alkalay-Gut, Karen. Alone in the Dawn: The Life of Adelaide Crapsey. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
    Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women’s Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1920s. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985.
    Stansell, Christine. American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2000.

A Note on the Texts
    The texts of Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy have been reset from the original editions, published by The Century Co. in 1912 and 1915 respectively. Jean Webster’s drawings, which are integral to the novels, are reproduced here.

DADDY-LONG-LEGS
    BY
JEAN WEBSTER
    Â 
    With Illustrations
by The Author

    NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
    1912

TO YOU

“BLUE WEDNESDAY”
    The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day—a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste. Every floor must be spotless, every chair dustless, and every bed without a wrinkle. Ninety-seven squirming little orphans must be scrubbed and combed and buttoned into freshly starched ginghams; and all ninety-seven reminded of their manners, and told to say, “Yes, sir,” “No, sir,” whenever a Trustee spoke.
    It was a distressing time; and poor Jerusha Abbott, being the oldest orphan, had to bear the brunt of it. But this particular first Wednesday, like its predecessors, finally dragged itself to a close. Jerusha escaped from the pantry where she had been making sandwiches for the asylum’s guests, and turned upstairs to accomplish her regular work. Her special care was room F, where eleven little tots, from four to seven, occupied eleven little cots set in a row. Jerusha assembled her charges, straightened their rumpled frocks, wiped their noses, and started them in an orderly and willing line toward the dining-room to engage themselves for a blessed half hour with bread and milk and prune