I first read this book when I was about eight or nine years old, and I loved it from the start. There's the same love of literature, and the same cheerful, humorous, slightly disrespectful but fond attitude towards the correspondent.You can get it for free! Read it. (Orphans really were low status back then)It reminds me a little of '84 Charring Cross Rd'. I laughed out loud several times while reading it.There's a romance that develops between Judy and a relative of one of her college friends, but she is concerned about her background and the fact that he comes from an upper-class family. (She knows that one of the reasons he chose to help her is that she wrote a humorous school essay mocking the trustees' annual visit to the orphanage)It's partly a wonderful window into the world of 1912, from the social attitudes to orphans, to the clothes worn by young women, but it's also very funny. As she's only even seen his elongated shadow, she nicknames him 'Daddy Long Legs'.She tells him about what she's learning, what she thinks of it, cheerfully berates him for never writing back, tells him of what she gets upto with her friends, comments on all kinds of things with a cheerful irreverence. She doesn't know what his name is, but the deal is that he supports her education as long as she writes him a regular letter about what she's doing.

I was pleased to discover that I enjoyed it even more as an adult.It's a series of letters from an orphan to the mysterious benefactor who is paying for her college education. I originally read this when I as young and never forgot it. My brain went 'You can get it free on Project Gutenberg!' and about half an hour later, I had it on my ebook reader. Urn:lcp:daddylonglegs0000jean_h8q6:lcpdf:efb2f622-1ab7-4e67-9640-bc347ae85ac0 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier daddylonglegs0000jean_h8q6 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s25qtvhkvx3 Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9556 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200524 Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 83.22 Pages 266 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20221213182016 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 149 Scandate 20221213020938 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 5.One of my Dreamwidth friends recently mentioned 'Daddy Long Legs' in her journal. Addeddate 00:00:57 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40793904 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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